Steph Rybczyn (she/her) is a human person who inhabits various little corners of K'jipuktuk (Halifax) with her various two legged, four legged, finned, winged, and leafy pals. Her work is very whimsical, and nearly always informed by the grief and precarity of having a body at all, let alone staying in it!

Never certain if her own memories are fact or fabrication, she functions from a place of "who-knows". A good story is always welcome: She believes that all objects have secret lives that can be witnessed if you ask right. That witnessing, that silently sensing a happening, is sacred and is a most important practice in the new relationship structures needed to get out of this mess.

She is an ecologist in her relationships to all things, but it’s not ecology school that she went to - she survived 5 years of NSCAD and went on to dig around with the Red Clay Studio Society. She participated in the VANS New Grad Program, and more recently, the CFAT Media Arts Scholarship (2021-22), where she has learned to work with media art through mixing footage of her grandparents arguing while peeling garlic with pomegranates and her own blood under microscopes. She is currently a student at the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine

She likes to sing secret songs to the inhabitants of her personal ecosystems, which sometimes looks like decorating the plants and building experimental cat toys out of toilet paper tubes.