A Season of Wonder

Photo of a model-sized Wonder Wheel decorated for Christmas.

Star of wonder, star of light
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light

Wishing you all a very safe and joyous holiday season. May 2023 bring much light and wonder into your lives.

Thank you for your support, inspiration and guidance this year as I slowly emerge from the pandemic fog and learn how to find joy in creation again.

Here at home there many ideas brewing and both L.A. & I are dreaming of the possibilities. But first, some rest and replenishing.

See you in 2023. xo tt

Re-connecting in person

Photo by S. Tung at one of my faves in S. Diego.

As the summer began its slow wind to an end, I found myself sitting at the dinner table with my partner, dreaming up small autumn travels where we might seek out ideas and inspiration for fall projects. I wanted to start on a new zine. Another collage volume, a travel issue, something. Something to help shake off the pandemic fatigue.

Then I received an email that held in it the one thing the previous zine begged for but couldn’t have:
A way to come together in person.

So, without revealing too much quite yet, September will bring one more round of diner love for Issue 06: A Seat at the Counter. If you’re in Toronto, I hope you’ll join in, in person, and share your great diner memories with me.

Group exhibit happening this month

I will be showing this diptych in a group show at Lyceum Gallery this month. 1st post-pandemic exhibit as we slowly re-emerge.🙏 Opening tomorrow on Queen West in Toronto.
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May 12–June 4, 2022
DUALITY at @theorchardlyceum
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About the show: DUALITY is a collection of diptychs that examine contrapuntal narratives, oppositional forces, mirror images, parallel realities, lines of symmetry, reciprocity, othering, our specular selves, unions and overlaps. Artists were asked to riff on the theme of dual nature and we are pleased to present the conversation that developed. Featuring: Laura Jane Petelko, Martin Reis, Tanja Tiziana, Thom Sokoloski, Danijela Gorley, Dick & Babs, Patty Zuver


About this work: "New York to San Francisco," is part of a larger collection of double-exposures entitled, "Photographic Memory." In this series, I re-consider the process of capturing that "decisive moment" on film and attempt instead to capture the experience of memory. Our memories are non-linear, non-binary, and even non-sensical at times. They are made up of layers upon layers of sensory information, all bound together by emotion. In these photographs, we travel into one memory of a city, a trip across the continent, and an afternoon of fleeting late autumn light within spaces that would vanish by the time the film was developed. It is a moment in time, not as I saw it, but as I remember it.

Four 12x18 Print Editions Released with Issue 06

It’s been a few years since I’ve released prints along with a zine publication, but this felt like the right theme and time to bring them back.

Out now are four 12”x18” c-prints of images featured in Issue 06. They are each a very different flavour, and all meaningful to me in some way.

All are signed and numbered editions of 10.

Also, for those who subscribe to my Patreon quarterly print mailouts, I will be sending out one of these in a smaller 8”x12” size exclusively to subscribers this April. If you want in on that, you just need to join Tier 3 or 4 before the end of March!

Thanks as always for the inspiration and support.