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“SEEKING” is a series of playful advertisements in the physical and digital world that ask what individuals may be seeking from their communities. This project was inspired by Nadia Myre’s “Want Ads”, in which she spraypainted slogans seeking personal connections in the streets of Vancouver in the 1990’s. During a remote mentorship last summer with another emerging artist in Edmonton, Kiona Ligtvoet, we found a common interest in text and its ability to convey desires. Our project consisted of two independent series of posters that we would create and put into the physical world (on phone polls, park billboards, etc.), as well as adapted “real” ads on Kijiji. They would be short and succinct posters that allude to other discussions we've been having about seeking our community, seeking an old tradition, seeking a memory, seeking a feeling, seeking justice, etc. The posters function as serendipitous interruptions in quotidian public space, as well as ambiguous calls for action on the part of the viewer. Without a means of response, they are left with their own agency in the matter, as to what should be done about this lack. The poster series is ongoing, evolving to respond to urgent issues.
Seeking: a sign--any sign--that you care
Presented during CAFKA.23 in Cambridge
2023
Seeking: ways to look less disposable
Presented with CAFKA.23 in Cambridge, ON
2023
Installation at Union Station in collaboration with ArtworxTO, curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, 2021. Photo by Toni Hfakenscheid
SEEKING
Installation inside Union Station, as part of the exhibition titled “I am Land that feels,” curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, part of ArtworxTO in Toronto, 2021-22.
SEEKING A TICKET TO THE PLACE SHE FEELS SAFEST
vinyl print, installed at Union Station in collaboration with ArtworxTO, curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, 2021. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid
SEEKING A PLACE THAT REMEMBERS
vinyl print, installed at Union Station in collaboration with ArtworxTO, curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, 2021. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid
SEEKING ENOUGH DISTANCE TO FEEL RELIEF
vinyl print, installed at Union Station in collaboration with ArtworxTO, curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, 2021. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid
SEEKING 2 STRONG GUYS TO MOVE A MONUMENT
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2020.
SEEKING PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2020.
SEEKING A PLACE TO FEEL QUEER
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2020.
SEEKING A TIME TO DO THIS AGAIN
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2020.
SEEKING AN END TO MY SEARCH
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2021
SEEKING PICTURES OF TOISAN
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2020.
SEEKING PERMISSION TO TAKE A BREAK
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2021
SEEKING
Installation by Publicite Sauvage and ART POP, as part of the Cover Story exhibition, curated by Bronson Smillie, (Montreal, 2021).
SEEKING DESCRIPTIONS OF FEELING RESTED
marker on copy paper, installed outdoors, 2021