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nuns and weddings…

Posted: June 15, 2025 in galleries
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… and a few things more from TMU Image Centre exhibits.

First, the main gallery of the Image Centre is showing a collection of the work of Clara Gutsche, winner of the 2024 ScotiabankCONTACT Photography award.  One of her series features photos of Quebec nuns, “The Convent Series”, taken before 1999.   Hence “nuns” in my title –   The “weddings” in the title comes from another exhibit here – a collection of portraits of brides and grooms over the years.

a woman looks at framed photographs on a gallery wall, TMU Image Centre gallery, Clara Gutsche show

black and white photo from convent series by clara gutsche, nun with painting, on display at TMU Image Centre

framed black and white photo from convent series by clara gutsche, nuns in black and white habits lined up in a hallway

framed black and white photo from convent series by clara gutsche, nuns outside hitting tennis balls with tennis racquets, against a wall

framed colour photo from convent series by clara gutsche, nuns in red playing croquet outside

There are other series of her work also on view including some taken inside a Catholic high school.

4 framedcolour photos on a gallery wall, all are interior shots of a catholic high school

girls sitting at desks in a school by clara gutsche

This is only a small sample of Gutsche’s work.  You can see more at the Image Centre until 2nd August 2025 – The originals look better than my copies!!

 

Let’s move on to the happy couples….

“Something Old; Something New – The Wedding Photography Collection of Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash” is  the full title of the exhibit.  The title says it all.  The exhibit gives a glimpse into the history of photography and the techniques used to produce images.  It also takes a look at a sliver of social history… especially with respect to clothing styles.  All the photos were donated to the Image Centre by Bulger and Lash in 2023.

photo of a wedding party, from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

photo by Karl Speiss, 1855, black and white, of a bride and groom, from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

portrait of bride and groom in a fancy oval frame, from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

bride and groom portrait, old, on red carpet, man with top hat,

on a gallery wall, image of bride and groom, from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

bride and groom, bride with head covering typical of roaring 20's

below: “Meilleurs Vaux pour votre Bonheur”, 5th of Jan, 1910

French postcard made with image of bride and groom portrait, Meilleurs Vaux pour votre Bonhour, 1910, with green 5 cent stamp

from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre

from Something Old Something New, a collection of wedding photos over the years, collected by Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, and then donated to the TMU Image Centre. Groom in a top hat, bride in a white coat with many small buttons, and a high collar

Unfortunately the exhibit has ended.

 

Queen West-ish

Posted: June 3, 2025 in alleys, construction, graffiti and street art, public art
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a yellow lovebot sculpture, with a red heart, on the counter at Nadege bakery

A Lovebot!  What a great way to start a day.  These two “live” at Nadege Bakery on Queen West.  The one on the left looks a little like mint ice cream with chocolate chips!  Or else the poor guy has some wickedly strange skin condition.

below: Washing the window makes for more reflections!

man washing inside of window, reflections of other people, cars, and buildings in the same window

below: The Ordinary

two signs above two adjacent stores, one on left says the ordinary, the one on the right says type.

below: And the not so ordinary

a little painting of a black bird with a long neck pecking at someone's brown hair, small painting mounted on a wood utility pole along with traffic signs, no parking

This is a “walk with friends” post.  Last Wednesday I walked with the Wednesday Walking Gang, most of whom I have known and walked with for years. Our “route” took us around the neighbourhoods to the west and south of Trinity Bellwoods Park.  We walked on streets such as Walnut, Stafford, and Shaw.

 

a woman walks down an alley towards a car parked by a garage

We saw houses, lots of houses…   some new…..

new three storey house on Stanley Terrace which is narrow street with park on the other side of the street

new addition to a house, with black cladding, older part of house is red brick

…  some old …

row houses, brick painted white house on left, then a blue house, and then brown, with a lot of green plants in the front yard.

green house with elaborately decorated front porch

…. and many in a row

a row of houses on Shaw street, mansour roofs, two storey,

… and even one with a pirate flag

front porch of a house, with a pirate flag on display

below: It’s great walking in May when spring gardens are in full bloom.   There were lots of front yards with interesting plants to look at.

an open picket gate by a front yard full of spring greenery as well as a tree with red leaves

below: Purple irises

purple irises in bloom in the front yard of a house

below: White clematis flowers

white clematis flowers growing against a grey wall

green shrub growing in front of a shiny surface wall with black paint graffiti that looks like a face

among many green plants and leaves, a small white statue of an old man, standing with two smaller people, one under each arm.

below: Geraniums in the window.

a brick house with lots of windows, pots of red geraniums are in the window

below: There’s something in the window – and it doesn’t look like flowers!

a cut out of a male body builder in just his skimpy underwear, flexing his muscles in an athletic pose,
hanging on the outside of a building in a lane, a painting of a dog, along with a Christmas wreath

below: Ready for summer?

backyard, semi divided house, patio table and chairs in the backyard along with a grey umbrella that is folded up

backyard space of a three storey brick building, with exterior metal balconies and access stair cases,

 

worker in yellow vest and hard hat controlling traffic on Shaw street because part of road is closed, rowhouses behind,

below: Utility pole replacement in progress – wow!  are those poles tall!

large flatbed truck carrying new utility poles parked on shaw street, workmen

construction workers standing around outside, by a sign on its side that says come in, we're open

orange do not enter sign on yellow metal fence in front of a red container

below: Three hoppers (funnels?), remnants of an industrial past.

three large metal hoppers, funnel shaped, at the top at roofline of brick building, old, once an industrial use

looking in through open door of mechanic's garage, swivel chair, shelves of tools

below: Queen Street, looking east from Shaw.

people waiting to cross intersection, queen at shaw, looking east on queen, TTC streetcar coming westbound stores, and other people, truck stopped at the red light, painted side of building on northeast corner

below:  Queen West at Walnut Ave where 7-Eleven gas is on the southeast corner (and gas is 135.9/litre).  St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church is the large red brick building on the north side of Queen West.

7 Eleven gas station on the southeast corner of Queen Street West and Walnut Ave., with St. Nicholas Ukrainian RC Church across the street

below: The north end of Toronto’s Stanley Park (not quite as big as the one in Vancouver!)

a woman with two dogs on leashes, walking across a park

There were two billboards, back to back, near King and Strachan that were part of the CONTACT Photography Festival.  They both had large images from Alanna Field’s “Unveiling” series.

spadina auto service, mechanic, building, with large billboard above with image by Alanna Fields, art, for contact photo festival

image of young black men, by alanna fields, on a billboard

construction site, with billboard above, billboard has image of black man with red background

There were other portraits seen along the way….

below: An orange painting on a white garage door, by doktor karayom.  Here little people seem to be emerging from this poor person’s head.  A little foot in one ear and an exploring hand reaching into the other.  Two cheeky little faces too.  I can’t imagine that that would be comfortable!

orange paint on white garage door, a large face with other smaller heads coming out of it, doktor karayom, in an alley

below: A bit more realistic, but still with a touch of macabre – young person with four hazel eyes painted by Alex Garant.

portrait of a young boy street art mural on the side of a house, boy has four eyes, one set right above the other, also two mouths

below: Normal eyes, blue eyes, on this woman with the long brown hair. Painted by Spud1

street art mural on a garage door in an alley, a portrait of a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, by spud1

street art mural on a garage in an alley, a portrait of a woman with long brown hair blowing a dandelion, seeds into air, by spud 1

below: There was also the face of a queen, a portrait of Queen Victoria, in a Queen West (no, not Queen Wet!) mural near Trinity Bellwoods Park by Electric Coffin and Denial (aka Daniel Bombardier).

Queen West mural featuring portrait of a queen wearing a crown

below: Four goofy faces in all the wrong colours – great whimsical silliness

urban art painting ona garage door, 4 silly goofy faces in bright wrong colours, green faces, red eyes, or big yellow eyes,

below: There are no human faces here in this Birdo (aka Jerry Rugg) mural but there is an alligator (crocodile?) with red eyes and big teeth as well as a shark lurking at the bottom.

mural by Birdo, aka Jerry Rugg, on a two storey black building, a crocdile or alligator head, and a shark along with the geometric shapes that mark his work

below: Owl in the night sky, a painting by Christina Mazzulla

street art mural of an owl, white face, orange features

below: For many years there has been a white albino squirrel that lives in or near Trinity Bellwoods park.  Here, Ted Hamer has painted it on a Bell box by the sidewalk on Shaw.

painting by Ted Hamer, of the white albino squirrel that is seen at Trinity Bellwoods park, on a metal bell box on the sidewalk

 

below: Swan

mural of a white swan on pink background by the entrance to a store on Ossington

below: A large snake is coiled up and squeezed into the confines of the fence.

street art painting of a snake with its tongue out, on a fence, with houses and backyards behind

below: Rowell Soller’s work covers the front of this garage.

front of garage in alley covered by street art painting in red, yellow and blacks, by Rowell Soller,

below: Curves by Flips

street art painting by Flips, pink and white swirls and curls, with 5 orange plastic bollards in front of it

below: One could argue that this is actually a bench.

an old dark green wood bench with graffiti on it that says this is a sign. it also has the number 3333 painted on it.

below: Urban Ninja Squadron gets together with Cosmo and away they fly!

sticker graffiti on green metal box, visual noise and urban ninja squadron collaboration with cosmo. t bonez is helping to fly a flying saucer

below: A warning sign – this area is remotely monitored…

a city of toronto street sign for Ossington Ave., by a traffic light also a poster with a picture of Jesus that says warning this area is remotely monitored.

below: Do you have any photos sitting around the house just taking up space?

4 small photos tacked onto a wood utility pole with purple push pins

on a red and white, my name is sticker.. a black drawing of a face with Z shape eyes and triangle nose, lots of teeth in mouth, two ears,

below: Can you see the donuts?

large graffiti slap on cement utility pole, in pink, blue and purple

side of a Canada Post mailbox covered with graffiti stickers as well as small ads

three small graffiti stickers on the side of black mailbox

blue baseball hat in the window of a store, embroidered with the words good vibes only

Thanks everyone!

a group of people walking down an alley with garages on both sides, and taller buildings at the end

children walking past a group of photographers and giving them strange look

 

domes and circles in the park

Posted: May 16, 2025 in events, galleries, locations
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From now until early September, there are two outdoor art installations at the Aga Khan Museum.  First, “Muqarnas, Form and Light” is a photography exhibit in Aga Khan Park that showcases the images of muqarnas taken by Glenn McArthur.

aga khan museum building, from the park

Muqarnas are three dimensional details found in Islamic architecture especially in mosques and madrassas (schools).  They are usually found incorporated into the top of vaulted structures such as domes and doorways. Often they look like honeycombs.  They can be made of many different materials such as stone, stucco, and plaster.

below: From the Abd Al-Aziz Khan Madrassa in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, is this painted plaster muqarna.  The blue and gold representing the sky is at the top.

muqarna in madrassa in bukhara uzbekistan, photo in an exhibit in Aga khan park, by Glenn McArthur

below: And a closer look at the painted details.  It was originally built in 1652 and then restored in 1993.

closer detail of part of muqarna in madrassa in bukhara uzbekistan, photo in an exhibit in Aga khan park, by Glenn McArthur

below: A carved stone muqarna covers a portal in the Al Rifa-i Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, built in 1912.

large photo on display in Aga Khan Park,
person sitting on bench and reading, park,

below: Decorated in dark blues and gold, this muqarna is found in the funerary complex commission by Çoban Mustafa Pasa, the vizier and son-in-law of Ottoman Sultan Selim 1 who reigned 1512 to 1520.  It is in Gebze Turkey.

below: Stucco muqarnas arches in the Court of the Lions at Alhambra Palace, Grenada Spain, late 14th century.

one of the images in form and light, an art installation by Glenn mcArthur

below: Close up look at part of a wooden muqarna from the Cappella Palantina (Palatine Chapel) in Palermo, Sicily (Italy). Although it was commissioned by a Christian monarch, Roger II of Sicily (reigned 1130-1154), it includes Byzantine and Islamic elements. Roger II was also a Norman but during his reign Sicily was very multicultural.  It is a rare example of a muqarna in a non-Islamic building and is the oldest surviving wood muqarna.

close up of part of a ceiling,

More of McArthur’s muqarna images can be seen on his Instagram page – mcmuqarnas

pink and white blossoms on weeping cherry tree, Aga Khan park

Also outside, but on the other side of the museum is another art installation.

Tracey-Mae Chambers, art installation at Aga Khan museum, outdoors, crochet and knit circles connected together to make a larger circle.

This one is the work of Tracey-May Chambers and it is constructed with red wool, silk, and cotton yarn. It consists of a circle made of connected knit and crocheted circles and within that circle there is a butterfly waiting to emerge.

It is one of 100 installations that Chambers is doing across the country for Hope And Healing Canada.  The red yard connects the elements and is a reminder that we are all connected too.

Both the “Light and Form” exhibit and Chambers’ crochet installation will remain until 7 September 2025.

reflecting pool in front of Islamic Center, by aga Khan Museum, small trees, clouds,

Toronto city street sign for Wynford Drive, includes Aga Khan Blvd as well

Phase in my Journey

Posted: May 14, 2025 in events, galleries
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“Phase in my Journey” is the title of an exhibit of the wonderful black and white photography of Walter Borchenko.   The photos span 20 years of his craft including his work with filters, with infrared photography, and with minimal digital manipulation.

below: Grassy Brook, Talbot River Road, Kawartha Lakes Ontario

below: Look Left cross walk, Birmingham England

the words look left in capital letters on the pavement by a crossing, warnings to pedestrians crossing the road

below: Wet tables, Las Ramblas, Barcelona

outdoors, lots of small tables and chairs, in the rain, wet, Barcelona, photo by Walter Borchenko

below:  One of the reflecting pools at the Aga Khan Museum.

large, 66 inches by 40 inches, black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, of one of the reflecting pools at Aga Khan museum in Toronto

below: On the left, Leather Jacket, New York City.   On the right, an intentionally out of focus city scene – a little disorienting, full of motion and uncertainty.

black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, exhibit is at Japanese Canadian cultural center and is part of Contact Photography Festival,

All of the images are printed on hand-made Awagami Japanese paper.

black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, exhibit is at Japanese Canadian cultural center and is part of Contact Photography Festival

below: Hong Kong ferry terminal

black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, exhibit is at Japanese Canadian cultural center and is part of Contact Photography Festival

below: New York New York casino in Las Vegas in the foreground.

black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, exhibit is at Japanese Canadian cultural center and is part of Contact Photography Festival

below: The larger picture on the left is the Airport Long Distance Train Station in Frankfort Germany.  On the right, is an older house in Port Royal, South Carolina.

black and white photo by Walter Borchenko, exhibit is at Japanese Canadian cultural center and is part of Contact Photography Festival

below: Not a Borchenko photo! The exhibit is being held at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center. Outside, they have the oldest Sakura tree that I have ever seen. It has large, dense, gorgeous blossoms!

sakura, cherry, blossoms on a tree, lots of pink and white petals

Exhibit closes 30th June

 

Colours at Davisville Station

Posted: May 4, 2025 in events, locations
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For the month of May, “Time Capsule”, a series of abstract images by French artist Laure Tiberghien is hanging on the walls of Davisville subway station.

on the walls of Davisville subway station, 4 large photographs have been mounted in the display cases usually used for ads. Photos by Laure Tiberghein

Tiberghien doesn’t use a camera to produce the images.  Instead, she creates them by exposing light sensitive paper to different natural and artificial lights.  Further processing is then required.

Two images by Laure Tiberghein, behind glass, by exit from Davisville station platform

Dark colours behind glass make a mirror and these images are no exception.

reflections in a red photograph hanging in Davisville subway station

The images have been inserted into the newer display cases that the TTC now use for advertisements.  On the left of each case is TTC information.

Davisville station, two art images in display cases usually used for ads

reflective picture in reds and blues on wall of davisville subway station, images by Laure Tiberghien

looking across the TTC subway tracks to the platform on the other side, on the northbound side of Davisville station, two images by Laure TIberghien, part of Contact Photography festival

exit sign hanging over platform at davisville subway station

two Queen West galleries

Posted: May 23, 2024 in galleries
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… a CONTACT Photography post.

Gallery 1313 and Elaine Fleck Gallery are within a block of each other out in Parkdale and both were participating in this year’s festival.

The Elaine Fleck Gallery were featuring the work of one artist, Bill Hornbostel, in a retrospective show titled ‘Luminous Realism’.   At Gallery 1313 I saw ‘Offshoot’, a collection of images from nine photographers.   Unfortunately the latter was only on display until May 19th.

below: Hornbostel’s images are large, and shot at slightly longer exposures.   Some of the photos, like this one of traffic on Bay Street south of Old city Hall, were taken in Toronto

a large photograph of Bay Street in Toronto, looking toward old city hall, hanging on a wall in Elaine Fleck Gallery, photo by Bill Hornbostel

below: ‘Offshoot’ at Gallery 1313

two women in an art gallery looking at photographs that are mounted on the wall

below: Margaret Kittel Canale, two building exteriors, orange and blue.

two photographs on a gallery wall, both building exteriors, the upper photo is an orange building, the lower one is grey stone with a blue arched door

below: Jude Marion (two photos), industrial areas in Hamilton.

photograph by Jude Marion of an industrial part of hamilton ontario at night

four photos of hamilton industrial areas on a gallery wall, work of jude marion

below: Lilianne Schneider with “Displaced” that looks at the abandonment and relocation of two heritage structures.

photographs of rural abandoned buildings by Lilianne Schneider, on a gallery wall

below: One of the photos by Courtney Fairweather who chose to highlight cell phone usage in today’s society.

man in orange robes, seated, looking at his cell phone, a photograph in a gallery by courtney fairweather

below: Some interesting photographs by Ted Scott

4 photos on a gallery wall by ted scott

below:  When I first posted this, I thought these images were part of ‘Offshoot’ but I was mistaken.   They are in fact part of a solo exhibit of digital photocollages by Janne Reuss (in a separate little room) titled ‘Thread(t)s and Narratives’ .

artwork on a gallery wall

artwork on a gallery wall

With apologies to the photographers whose work I haven’t shown (not missed on purpose): Joachim Oepkes, Ulla Djelweh, James Sutherland, and Eric Garsonnin.

The Bill Hornbostel show continues until the end of May

a large framed photograph on a gallery wall with lots of reflections of the people in the gallery, and of the view from the front window of the gallery

 

 

Scarborough Contact

Posted: May 1, 2024 in events, galleries, locations
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It’s May 1st, the start of May and the start of CONTACT Photography Festival.   It’s a chance to see what other people are doing with photography besides what is posted online on sites like flickr or Instagram.  Some of the work will be great and you may get inspired.   I am sure that there will also be images that you dislike.   But that’s art.  That’s why create.

Events like CONTACT that are spread all over the city also give you the excuse to try someplace new as well.  For instance, today I was back in Scarborough.

below: Bellamy Road, looking north from just above Ellesmere

view of Bellamy looking north

below: Hiding in the back of a multi-unit building was the home of Next Generation Arts.

low rise light industrial building on Bellamy, with red sign in front for Arts group

The front looked abandoned.  But look for the unexpected.

below: Ghost sign on window. “Denture”?  an arrow pointing left, and a phone number?

ghost sign on glass window beside door of empty office unit

 With apologies for the less than stellar quality of the photos….  The show in their gallery features work that was produced as a result of their ‘PS Scarborough’ program for youth and seniors.

photograph, framed, on a gallery wall, Next Generation Arts

 

two framed photographs on a gallery wall

below:  Something has caught their attention…..

framed photograph on a gallery wall, inside subway station, by entrance and exit gates, with green arrows, many people, all looking at something on a wall, some taking pictures of it

below: I am afraid that I have inserted myself into the image. Sigh. The downside of glass in front of photos.  It is an interesting photo of a woman on the subway, looking through windows with reflections.

framed black and white photo hanging on a gallery wall

below: Now an historic photo!  An evening shot of the Scarborough RT, no longer with us, with more reflections.

framed photo of Scarborough RT through a window, with reflections of interior lights, passing a large building, framed photo on gallery wall

Have fun exploring!  You never know what will catch your eye!  Seen behind the building with the gallery as I wandered around.  Lost?  Thrown away? Stolen and abandoned?

plaid handbag with ribbon trim, outside, lying on the ground, with old wood, and a flattened cardboard box

And enjoy all that May has to offer.

red tulips

Artists whose work is shown at the gallery:

Ruby Chan
Nithursan Elamuhilan
Leeza Gheerawo
Patricia Guyader
Noor Hamadi
Anudev Kumarri
Samantha Lu
Casey Lun
Anne Ng
Dhiviya Prabaharan
Shammah Salwa
Michelle Tan

a small weed grows up beside a brick wall

 

“Feels Like Home”

Posted: May 27, 2023 in events, galleries, public art
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… an art project by Sunday School,  a creative agency formed in Toronto in 2017 by Josef Adamu.  At the moment there are billboards at a few locations around the city including here at Dundas and Lansdowne where there are 3 images.

billboards above a vacant lot. The boards feature 3 large images by Sunday School. On the far left is a reclining woman with arm supporting head. In the center is a billboard with two images. Someone is brushing the hair of a young black woman in one photo. In the other, a person is sitting in a small orange car, viewed from the drivers side of the vehicle.

close up of images on billboards. two images. Someone is brushing the hair of a young black woman in one photo. In the other, a person is sitting in a small orange car, viewed from the drivers side of the vehicle.

Other photos by the group are on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  Two examples are:

below: “Jump Ball” is an ongoing project that explores the relationship between basketball and the African Diasporic communities.  Home is not restricted to private spaces, it is also found in unity. Here, in “Jump Ball: Toronto (2019)”,  you can see carefully composed pairings of young men in vibrant Ghanaian Kente cloth or a Senegalese boubou on the basketball court (what is identity?  how does basketball bring young men together?).  These were photographed by O’shane Howard.

photographs on a gallery wall, two in colour, and a group shot in black and white. the coloured photos are of young black men in traditional african clothing on a basketball court

below: Another series of pictures is “Ten Toes Down”, photographed by Kreshonna Keane.  This series features a ballet dancer in her home – a Black dancer in a field that is almost exclusively white.  Home is not just a building.  Home is the body; home is self expression.

two photographs on a gallery wall. on the left a black woman, a ballet dancer, sits on her floor surrounded by pairs of ballet shoes or slippers. the other picture is shoes and books

below: This image by Carlos Idun-Tawiah can also be seen in a parking lot by 80 Spadina Ave (see above, at Lansdowne & Dundas).

image of a young black woman

Sunday School website

Sunday School’s Instagram page

Cowboys and Indians

Posted: May 26, 2023 in events, general Toronto, public art
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below: At 460 King West (at intersection with Spadina) there is a mural on the wall and a poster in the Pattison advertising space. Both are part of the CONTACT Photography Festival.

view from parking lot on Spadina, large image on wall of adjacent building

a contact photography festival image, as a large mural, by Jake Kimble showing the artist as a young boy dressed up as a cowboy with large text added to photo that says I was told that the peace was mine to keep

Jake Kimble is a Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné) from Treaty 8 Territory in the Northwest Territories. The original photograph is of Kimble at age 6 or 7 and it was taken by his mother. In it he is wearing a cowboy at and apparently he was on his way to the Calgary Stampede.

“I was told that peace was mine to keep.” On the CONTACT webpage that describes this installation, this text is “the statement of a promise unfulfilled or a burden to bear. The phrase implies both that peace was his, and its opposite—that he was to be the peacekeeper”.

Double Pendulum

Posted: May 19, 2023 in events, public art
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There are now three large images on display at Ontario Square (on Queens Quay near the foot of York Street).   Collectively, they are  “Double Pendulum” by Maggie Groat who has constructed them as wheatpaste collages.  They are part of this year’s CONTACT Photography Festival.

Cubic concrete structure at Ontario Square, two sides visible, each with a large image by Maggie Groat, part of Double Pendulum

below: Butterflies constructed from other shapes and objects. Does this show the interconnectedness of all things, as in the “Butterfly Effect”?

abstract image by Maggie Groat with sections of things put together to make butterfly shapes,

large image by Maggie Groat, abstract with a lot of semi circles and yellow daisies

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