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Rock, Deception Island Demo, Pluto, Techno and Auto walk into a... Siege - Quebec City 2001 Siege - New York City - 2001 The Game Ice+Man+Time Anonymous and Proud Poster The Have and Have Not Bears Broken Hearted, G20 2010 the point/period Silent Sods, 2010 G20 The Ed Thread The Essential Ed No Lady Dulcinea Dark Chocolate Arrangements Blindness Baghdad Moment The Self Kelly Suffra Jets Beach Beauty | Libido LLC Destinations in Motion -
Toronto Bloor St. Banner 2009 |
Rock, Deception Island recalls a trip to Antarctica in 1993. The two Siege abstracts are from the September 2001 exhibit, "The Wall - From China to Quebec City, 2001", and were in response to the protests at the Summit of the Americas against the rise in economic inequality, and to the collapse of the World Trade Centre on 9/11. The Have and Have Not Bears and a cardboard mixed media work called Mama, Mama, Mama, Is this what democracy looks like? were also part of the 2001 Wall exhibit. In January 2025, the graffiti Demo, Pluto, Techno and Auto was added to the cardboard mixed media work. In 2001 the puzzle image referenced a fracturing democracy with the missing puzzle pieces dangling beside it, all those being left behind in the growing economic divide. In 2025, the question, gaps, disparity, and missing pieces have new meaning. The Ed Thread was part of an interactive installation in September 2003, featuring the life of the artist coinciding with that of Ed Mirvish (1914-2007), the owner of Honest Ed's emporium, theatrical entrepreneur and Toronto citizen extraordinaire. The Essential Ed was inspired by a lost photograph taken of him by the artist in 2005 when he was given a key to the city outside her studio. Blindness, inspired by the "Dog of Tears" in the book by Jose Saramago, is dedicated to the late Patti Fuhrman, and her dog, Salty. The images of Kathleen Finlay and Alec Nicol are memories of two beautiful artists. Kelly is dedicated to a local runaway who did not survive the streets. Baghdad Moment is an image of humanity in the face of war, from a photo taken of Marla, a young American who went to Iraq to help local civilians and died with them in a car bomb attack in 2005. Two photo collages - Broken... and Silent sods - reflect two sad days in Toronto during the billion dollar G20 summit in June 2010. A third photo collage, The Game, using three photos taken in Greenland and Iceland in 2013, recalls the game of tic-tac-toe, and adds a boast made in the Chinese bid for the 2008 Olympics. The artist invites contemplation of our own hubristic role in interpreting 'ecological change' as just another 'game of chance'. Ice+man+time is another visual reminder of our role in planetary climate change. Destinations in Motion is a work on paper that was converted to a street banner on Bloor Street at Gladstone by the local BIA for a year or two. | |||
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