123WEST Mural by Otilia Sabina in Vancouver

Otilia (she/her) is a visual artist and designer born in Bucharest, Romania and raised on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, also known as Vancouver. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. I use collage and digital media to create new visual artifacts which come from stories from both my life before and after immigrating to Canada in 1998. Through an iterative process of collage and digital manipulation I aim to bridge both the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of my own history. My compositions manifest as exploratory studies of space, movement and shape.