Writing
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Hello Darling,
April 7, 2025
Look up what the weather was like in Toronto when I wrote this for you. It’s the third of April, 2025. I’m sitting in my garden (my parents’ garden) listening to the playlist I made you. I miss you every day but it doesn’t feel bad. Usually it hurts a…
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In Birth and Sleep
April 6, 2025
Half fiction and half truth like all stories, it begins in a dream. What was happening? I have very little idea. Then I’m in terrible physical pain. It’s so bad I can’t stop myself from arching off the bed. I think I’m awake in my room at night but the…
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Red Plaid Flannel
February 17, 2025
Okay, another try. This time less elegant, more information. Two evenings ago my mother said we were going to get two centimeters an hour overnight. Now the windowsill corners harbour distinguished white layers.
There is a story of my father tucking me into bed. I am young enough to still…
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Film is Now Forever
January 21, 2025
Video is a relatively new medium. Depending on how you draw the lines, the first writing systems were established around 6,000 years ago and the origin of painting can be traced back at least 45,500 years. If visual art was your Grandmother, 100 years old and going strong, film is…
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Dream Lovers
January 12, 2025
One night you are dreaming and a man appears. You’ve never seen him before yet he feels warm and familiar. He understands intuitively things you didn’t even know about yourself, things you didn’t know you had been wanting. The connection is base and physical but in its simplicity you feel…
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The Best Movie
December 7, 2024
It starts with a great hook, like the Big Bang!
It needs time to make you feel the reality. High definition, all the emotions of real life in the same proportions. The people should be very nice to look at but not in a way that makes you think they…
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I Had a Dream About You
September 29, 2024
I was at school, in the studio, and I saw you across the room. You looked nicer than you usually do but I couldn’t figure out why. You saw me and waved but didn’t come over to me because you were talking to someone. I didn’t go over to you…
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