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creating a collaborative installation
Grayson James at the Ryerson Image Centre and the installation/project After Alexandria I became interested in this project at a point in my life when I was experiencing a loneliness unlike any I had before. As an avid reader, I … Continue reading
Perspectives and Perversions
Dave Morris begins his “Opening Doors” article about Rick Bébout’s web site (Eye May 12/05) by quoting Bébout on gay people and what they offer: “We should be gift-givers,” says Rick Bébout. “We should be people who understand we have … Continue reading
Home or Less
There’s a never going home built into the unempty occupied by the first person place. I am thinking here of the conclusion of a poem by Chrystos. It is the final poem found in the volume Not Vanishing and here … Continue reading
Precedence
World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else by Doc Searls and David Weinberger under the rubric “Adding value to the Internet lowers its value” write Sounds screwy, but it’s true. If … Continue reading
Object, Gift, Memento
Candida Pugh in a September 2007 review (appearing in the Annex Gleaner) of Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener chooses to highlight the following: Naiko’s mother languishes in a nursing home, slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. The journalist Kana, Naiko’s globe-trotting … Continue reading
On the authentic
A page from Judith Martin’s Miss Manners’ Basic Training: Communication [Etiquette provides] a whole catalogue of things to say on every occasion: congratulations, thank you, I’m so sorry, happy birthday, I love you, happy holidays, best wishes and I offer … Continue reading
Anti-Theft
Augustine’s Rule Chap 8.5 Should anyone conceal a gift bestowed upon him he shall be judged guilty of theft. Begs for an ontology of gifts. They are concealable. Not necessarily so. Gifts unbestowed are not yet open to concealment. There … Continue reading
Spottings
Snowdrops spotted in the back garden by DWR. And a composition in his honour: tap drop running bucket sap tipping kettle thickening bottlefuls and bottlefuls of maple guile It is like a little haiku that ran away on the wings … Continue reading
Knick-knack
Almost Japanese by Sarah Sheard has one passage that uncannily reminds some readers of the scene describing the results of a special un- and reclassifying of the elements of a collection in Jane Urquhart’s novel The Whirlpool. That which a … Continue reading