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Last year was the inaugural ZooIslander event on Pender Island. This was the brainchild of the very talented and creative Madelin Emery. With the help of many of the artists and performers on this island, she put together an extravaganza which delighted and astonished the full-capacity audience. I was lucky enough to take part in Madelin's ARTemis runway last year. I designed, created and modeled a cape made out of bubble wrap and feathers. I was inspired by air, the life-giving force that surrounds us and I called this piece Atropos after the Fate whose job it was to cut the thread of life that had been spun and measured by her two sister Fates.

This year ZooIslander 2018 took place. How could it match the spectacle of the first? It did and even surpassed the 2017 show. This year I was also in Madelin's ARTemis runway. I created a medieval cope covered in tea bag packages and arranged in a pattern containing the Fibonacci number sequence of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. Not the traditional blocks that create a spiral, but a more decorative pattern of my own invention. Underneath I wore an abacus girdle I had made for Hypatia, who was a mathematician, astrologer and philosopher in 4th century Alexandria. It is based on the ancient Peruvian method of accounting called a quipu.