Back off!Sandhill Crane – George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
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PostArctica: 3 Quotes
I like common materials, whatever is at hand, but especially stones. I like the idea that stones are what the world is made of. Richard Long …if the villain – who is of course a coward – takes refuge behind the ropes, claiming his right to do so by a
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Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. He is married to artist Bharti Kher and is represented
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Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist who uses photography and video to create new versions of landscapes and the city. Website Rune Guneriussen is an artist after my own heart, installing, photographing, and moving on. Website Cristina de Middel (born 1975 in Alicante, Spain) is a
Continue readingPostArctica: The Future
The Future deserves a better explanation than the one we are currently offering
Continue readingMind of Dan: Good bye and good riddance 2017
The Last moon of 2017 Onwards to 2018. May it surpass the low bar set by 2017.
Continue readingPostArctica: Election Selfie
On November 5th Montreal elected its first woman mayor, Valerie Plante. I was volunteering that day and spent a couple of hours in the De l’Eglise Metro handing out voting reminders. Later on another volunteer and I were knocking on doors after 7pm (polls closed at 8). We were motivated
Continue readingPostArctica: Influences
There is this building on Saint Ambroise in Saint Henri that I always refer to as the “Cartier-Bresson Building” because it reminds me of this picture. And that’s the way that works. Never be afraid to let your influences influence you!
Continue readingPostArctica: Walking, Cemeteries and Gender
Great article for urban explorers of all stripes and walkers in general. And Solnit’s book is awesome! “As activist Rebecca Solnit observed in her comprehensive opus Wanderlust: A History of Walking: “Women’s walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see –
Continue readingPostArctica: 780 Saint Remi – Then and Now.
Took this picture about 7 years ago after much of the Turcot Movement had already happened. Much on my mind at that point. This was a pretty cool building inhabited by many artists. It was only 4 storeys and the lofts all had those incredible floor to ceiling windows that
Continue readingPostArctica: L’automne – Year 2!
Amazing how long projects can take when you make them as complicated as possible. Anyway, I walked the Verdun waterfront the last couple of days and here we are again picking up where we left off, perhaps a little wiser via research and life in a world where the only
Continue readingPostArctica: Dissolving Clouds
Came across this and began to wonder… If I could do it too… So today I dissolved some clouds using only the powers of my mind. It took longer than I thought it would.
Continue readingPostArctica: Graffiti In Cote Saint Paul
Industrial section.
Continue readingPostArctica: Late Summer Melancholy of An Arch
Rolling on foot into Westmount today and took a pic which reminds me of Giorgio de Chirico’s Mystery and Melancholy of a Street. Here is Giorgio’s version. And here is mine. Maybe I am just crazy, getting old, but I see paintings in photographs, or, but its not a problem.
Continue readingPostArctica: That 9/11 Picture
People who worked at Open City at the time might recall Vladimir doing a lot of work with this image, yea, it was iconic, too real, way out there…because it is us barenaked with everything reduced to the pure moments before death, a trajectory of beauty and crippling fear, a
Continue readingPostArctica: Fuck Colonialism
Stumbled upon this flash mob in Saint Henri Sunday afternoon. They stopped a passenger train. Train is stopped fairly early in its journey from out of downtown Montreal. I was there about 10 minutes and then everyone just left and it was regular pedestrian traffic again. Apparently, “They are opposed
Continue readingPostArctica: Grimskunk at Verdun Art
Yesterday was the now annual event on Wellington street called Verdun Art organized by Nadia Gagnon of Maltehops. And it was nothing less than an awesome day of music on the street. There were 5 musical groups and the Girardin family and friends put on a drumming concert from their
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