"to be flying is not to be in it"

This is one of the women who spoke about flying and what it meant in her life. "To be flying is not to be in it". So simple and strong. For her to act as if flying was transformative and placed her "not in it".
I am so excited by this work, and so happy when I go to visit and make art. Art becomes this wonderful circle, where, at times, the actual making occurs between us, through conversation.... And then I think of all of the wonderful feminist, conceptual artists...

Yesterday was a day of comic errors. I had baked muffins but did not have the key (turns out it was in my possession)... Showed up with the idea that we could at least eat muffins, if nothing else. We tracked down a worker who was kind enough to open a cupboard and the kitchen - so we had tea with our snack. And some beads. But this gave us also an extended period of time in which we could really begin to explore the banner production.

This is a sneak preview of the banner again! We will show snippets over the next weeks. Thanks!

someday is not any day of the week

We are working on a group of flying women! the women have been so amazing - taking poses with their arms in the air - getting ready for flight! And then I do a bit of digital magic so that we can eventually place them on a banner. Stay tuned to this space as we get ready to produce our first banner with this community of women.

Visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario

I don't have a photograph to represent our trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Perhaps the image would be of the muffins I baked in advance of the trip. Or the beautiful blue sky. Or sitting on the corner waiting for the bus. Perhaps a collage would work.... as we encountered the work of Kenyan born artist Wengechi Mutu. One of the women who came on the trip was Kenyan! So it was a moment of sheer delight. Big thanks to the AGO for a delightful afternoon of immersion in colour, shape, feeling.

Instead I put up one of the banner mockups - a work in progress collage made up of some of the work done. These are not the kind of colours I often work in but they resonate with what we are doing down in the interior of an anonymous building.... Not so anonymous once these get placed outside!