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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
“Strung between the twin poles of pathos and irony, 108 Leyton Ave is Kelly Mark’s most personally revealing work to date. It is built from common expressions relating to 'everything' and 'nothing' and was developed over a period while Mark was living in the social isolation of a quasi-suburban limbo on… ⊕
A staring competition with a video camera lasting until my eyes began to dialate and I could no longer focus.Collection of Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of TorontoJessica Wyman: "Performing Generations" Lola #4, PP 54-55. Summer 1999Exhibition History:1997 Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto ON); 1999… ⊕
2022, 05:27 minutes, colour
tapecode 163.135
An interlacing of two realities, a surrealist encounter with a dog through a dream.
Hearing that my mother had her eyes closed for the duration of her wedding ceremony has always struck me. I wanted to explore this experience of my mother as a way to honour her courage and inner resourcing. The trust and grounding in her own self that closing her eyes must have required is a form of resilience and saying yes… ⊕
Two children, or perhaps elders, a brother and a sister, have built a home on an island beyond time itself. Their days consist of fishing, foraging, making art and finding new medicines, though imminent climate collapse and the lives they’ve left behind weigh heavily on them both. Through conflict and collaboration, they… ⊕