Category: winter
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unexpected encounters #5: tags
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” Likely the tagging went like this. (1)…
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unexpected encounters #4: winter
The western portion of the railway (built 1881-1885) was designed to link British Columbia with the rest of the country and improve trade and commerce between Eastern and Western Canada. Andrew Onderdonk, head contractor of the CPR, promised that he would hire white workers for the project … almost immediately, however, many of the white…
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spring at the lake
Spring in Canada is the promise of a romantic evening that starts with being kicked squarely in the nuts. Spring in Canada is nature’s broken promise. We’re promised flowers and beauty and we get hungover winter. Spring in Canada is a lie. Canada has four seasons alright. Summer, fall, winter and betrayal. Canadian comedian Brittlestar,…
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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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curves #1
Curves are everywhere, softening the horizontals and verticals, but these photographs were all taken in Calgary, Alberta between 2016 and 2020. #1 rear view of Kane’s Harley Diner, Inglewood #2 our Renfrew backyard on 27 December 2016 #3 our much missed Luci #4 overlooking Bottomlands Park and Deerfoot Trail from Renfrew #1 from the footbridge…
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Canadiana #1
Two quintessentially Canadian images to launch this site. solitary walker in a Canadian landscape Calgary Bottomlands, December 21, 2022 chinooky sky downtown Calgary from Tom Campbell’s Hill, January 11, 2023
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