Reflecting Upon....
...the day
what has been accomplished
the world
relationships
the season and what it portends
and what to make for dinner
Painting by Luke Gilliam
Cabbagetown Arts and Craft Fair
The fair is set up from Friday til Sunday in the park next to Riverdale Farm
and many residents have set up yard sales throughout the neighbourhood.
Come and wander through.
A New Beginning
September always feels like the beginning of a new year, more somehow than January.
We are embarking on a journey that will take us who knows where.
All we can do is ready the ship, collect all of what we might need
and set sail.
Gifts from a friend afar
Paintings by Nancy Thielemans
One
Above are the copies of the paintings that we collaged with
shown in Blogs Four, Five, Three, Two, One.
Four
Today we had a visitor, Jill Lawrence, come to work with us. We shared images, copies of four paintings and each of us chose, unbeknownst to the others, to use this sitting character in our collages. Placing him up a tree, in the clouds, on a wall, in a room.
You met this character in yesterday's blog 'The Bathers' by
Seurat. Starting with the same resource is a great way to appreciate the unique imagination of each person.
Today was a good day.
Cooling off
Painting by Georges Seurat
We're here to tell you...
...that the gallery will be closed for the month of August,
opening again on the 5th of September.
Our blogs will continue to keep you updated on what's happening on the inside.
Waiting to Dive In
'Looking for Go Home Bay' Photograph by Shozo Ushiroguchi
A copy of this piece is on display in the photographic gallery in Arcturus.
Tamed by the Beast
Collage by Sae Kimura
today
The temperature of colour and of a day
cooler in the shade, a welcome breeze
softened by clouds drifting over sun.
Heat is something we can smell, can breathe in
and out
coloured by weather.
Polkadogs, Steeples and Chair
A day of seemingly unrelated elements, moments,
translated into black and white,
a quieter version of chaos,
letting the differences slide, one into the other,
dots and dogs a typo
mistake or nothing in common
steeples rise and clouds float, faster in the wind
an expression of inward and outward contemplation,
embodied quizzically
in the holding of blue chair.
Please, take a seat.
Calling the Apple Angel
It takes time for a tree to bear fruit
and what is time?
seasons and weather
snow melting to roots drinking deeply
years of many days
small branches growing thicker almost imperceptible
leaves unfurling and blossoms few enough to count
each one a possibility
sapling to tree
colt to horse
puppy to dog
one moment you notice it has happened
something becomes what it was meant to be
maturity
the readiness to bear fruit.
Today's Crazy Quilt
It is not the individual pieces that matter here
but the fact that we sat around a table together
engaging attention in a shared activity.
photographic gallery
In the last couple of weeks we have opened up
another space in the building to be a photographic gallery.
Here we can exhibit the many works that we have
collected over the years.
Sim Posen whose work has inspired this project
will be showing work from earlier shows as
well as new work.
Maybe this is not so far from here
we hope you can find such a place
Smoke in the City
Collage by Eron Boyd
Boxes
boxes
coming in going out
more in than out it seems
possible containers for some future use
possibilities
filling the space til there are none
At 7's and 8's with each other..
collage by deborah harris
collage by Eron Boyd
collage by Sae Kimura
collage by deborah harris
collage by Eron Boyd
out of the box
Collage and photo Eron Boyd
Drawn to the Mysterious
Collage by Eron Boyd
Sneak Preview
We will host an opening reception on Saturday of this week from 2 - 5:30pm
You are invited to attend.
A Cast of Many
A show happens in a gallery and a gallery takes daily care and management.
The behind the scenes actors are essential.
When a show is in process everyone does extra time.
We are such a good team at the gallery that it is easy to take it for granted just how smoothly we all step up
but this is why the atmosphere of the gallery can be so enjoyed by visitors.
Sincere thanks to Eron Boyd, Mark Tai, Ed Drass and Cathy Stilo.
It would take many words to describe all that you do.
Building a Show
Building a show;- ideas born in another time and place enter into the now.
The space of the gallery has its own nature and proportions and ideas must reshape to accommodate factual reality. This is not a concession but an opportunity for something unexpected to be revealed. We created a form to support an idea and that form took up occupation in the space in a way that could not have been imagined before. If we become rigidly tied to our ideas we can not recognize these gifts and will miss the possibility to grow creatively.
After all is not creativity the ability to continually improvise with our surroundings and circumstances?
This show is a collaboration between the works of Gustavo Jabbaz and Joachim Oepkes photographers, Lysias Harris builder designer, Manny Parmar print installer, Sae Kimura mixed media artist and assistant to every possible task invented by deborah harris, her impulsive and erratic cohort and curator.
'Leave your face on the sidewalk'
That was the old message.
Now we have our faces back.
May the sun smile upon you
as you also smile upon others.
Mask or Portrait
Collages in Collage Gallery by deborah harris