Ottawa in the fall

This fall we made a trip to Ottawa, taking the scenic lake route. It was wonderful to be able to enjoy some landscape and empty roads!

During our time in Ottawa, on our way to Byward market, we would pass by a young artist working on this chalk painting. We watched it grow visually and emotionally. Every night he would cover it with a plastic sheet to save it from the elements, seal it with duct tape, and leave a note in the hope that it wouldn't be vandalised.

I found that the plastic sheet added to her melancholy and the boundary using found objects created a preciousness that contradicted her worth.

Oscar and I.

If only I had the chance to watch this magician work his fingers...

This wonderful bronze by Ruth Abernethy is probably the closest I'll ever get to a physical Oscar Peterson. Live on!

Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica. I enjoy old church ceiling constructions. I find them so inspiring and maybe soon I'll use some of those lines in my sculptural work!

Nuit Blanche 2010

Kim H. Adams: Autolamp.
This installation was set on a rotating pedestal and I especially enjoyed how the buildings around the installation were bathed in these little dots of light.

Max Streicher: Endgame. In the alleyway between 67 & 69 Yonge Street. Fantastic!

Nuit Blanche is one night in the year when the city of Toronto is taken over by artists. I was excited to be a part of the exhibition 'Text as Drawing' this year at Dish gallery and studio, in the Distillery District.

Mystic clay pad, an idea conceived by Susan Card, Dallas Card and Derek Chung, was a fascinating way to involve people that came to the Distillery through the night. The evenings digital communications, via text, tweets and other media about Nuit Blanche were captured in clay, archiving the nights events sculpturally.