How can we cultivate selflessness in what we create? Is the act of creating inherently an act of selfishness? Is everything we make secretly a selfie of some kind? If selfies are our own perspectives on ourselves, does it become an incubator or an echo chamber? How can we create work that moves our world forward, that connects to other people and provides some sort of opportunity for change? How do we make something personal that reaches out, work that is true to ourselves without becoming self-indulgent?

Colleen is an Albertan-born artist now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.