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more days to check out Visual Arts Show. Buying art brings you luck. (Especially if you are the artist.) In any case, just finished submitting 7 count them 7 different photographic projects to Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2007...for my own edification, they are 1)"Stay Tuned","fragments of different forms of different televised narratives", 2)"TransCanadaRoad Trip "at one time contemporary documents, are transformed by the passage of time and (art) history to artifacts – “vintage conceptual art” , 3)"Artifacts "exploring accidental correspondences between specific everyday objects and contemporary art -- installations, outdoor sculpture, graffiti, etc. – suggesting an alternate explanation/narrative by imbuing the “artworks” with aesthetic values, intentionality, an art-historical context and fictional or imagined creators. 4)"TV Women"-- a revisitation of the image of woman on television in 1976 thirty years later, examining the idea of (re)presentation of gender roles, history in terms of fashion and style, and “progress” as part of a teleological narrative...5)"Binos"" By overlaying the implied objectivity of the documentary tradition with a subjective cinematographic style, the city is transformed from a static subject to a film set, the focus for mystery, romance, fantasy, imagination – an alternative fictional narrative..."6)"The Big Owe"."about the memory of an unseen event" + lastly...7)"Endless Flame"...an endless loop of an Olympic Flame runner bearing the mythologically charged flame down Sherbrooke St. Whew. Thanks mucho to brainy art minded D + friends for helping me intellectualize stuff I make viscerally...Don't find out until next December if any projects accepted.

getting submissions together. Bzzz.

more days for the Visual Arts Centre Show. Super work (+ extraordinairly cheap) of some of Montreal's finest artists...we're talking folks that are represented in the major galleries of the city. This is a juried show juried by a tough jury + it shows. Me myself, I bought a fab little paintng for 200 bucks today (my family doesn't know yet) by Christine Unger that I am sooo excited about...

+ me

as I attempt to decipher submission text (below) re: some of my photographs, appropriate or not....? I don't do Jeff Wall or Cindy Sherman (to my career detriment, alas)...makes my brain hurt. Any help greatly appreciated.

narrativity of the image

In the field of photography and video, this return to narration affects numerous aspects of the media and is apparent in various ways. While the special status of reality in photography has long been a topic of debate, today technological developments, digital image creation and the recourse to staging events are contributing to a considerable shift in photography’s relationship to reality and to a transformation of the narrative potential of the image. Borrowings from the cinema, mass media and communication networks are contributing to this broadening of narrative possibilities while at the same time proposing a new critical perspective on the way images are used and the power they have. This questioning is also calling attention to the testimonial function of photography and video. It is impossible to tell a story without making reference to the human quality of the narrative and the image and to their

This reconfiguration of narrativity is also intrinsically linked to the question of time, whose limits are constantly being pushed back to give form to more complex, non-linear and fragmentary narratives, which proceed by association, by assembling and disassembling, and to more abstract narratives which explore simultaneity, slowness, duration, repetition or circularity. These temporal experiences give rise to situations of waiting and expectation and manipulate the narrativity of the image in order to baffle our perception.

The tenth edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal hopes to demonstrate how playing with narrativity leads to an exploration of narrative at the same time as it calls its mechanisms into question.

here she be

I forgot to measure it...15X22? It's oil on wood.

ouch

cut fingers (washing a brush) broken glasses so not feeling particularily balanced -- also Jointe issues--however, the impulse to art surges on throughout strife + sturm. And at Visual Arts Centre sits a little Edith Dora Rey, a modestly priced at 275 Lachine Canal painting.....3/4 of the proceeds go to the school. Met a man with a discerning eye at the vernissage tonight. My painting, he showed me on a list, was his number 3 pick! Not bad out of 2 large rooms full of gorgeous art. I could have easly bought 20 beautiful works, had I the coin. Worth checking out.

Vernissage! Thurs May 25

Collective Visions – 60th anniversary fundraising exhibition Opening Gala: Thursday May 25 at 6 pm exhibition continues until June 3 at the Visual Arts Centre 350 Victoria Montreal...lots of well known artists + some emerging (ahem). Costs 25 bucks for the verni, but I am told there are tons of great raffles, food+boozy + tons of fabulous affordable art (ahem). It's a great school, that actually teaches HOW to make art.

I can't stand the constant

clamouring, haranguing. "Edith, where are the Elvi? You haven't posted any new Elvi for weeks. " Alright, alright. Here's four, hot off the drawing board, still wet.

a virtual tour of Jointe in the Pointe

had to take pix today because it is squeaky spickety spit + polish for the evaluator. Even the sun cooperated.

let it rain let it rain

took Angy for a 2 hr walk along canal..beautiful, photogenic + inspiring...

big thanks

to everyone who was so nice to me on my birthday It's really fun to have a birthday once a year and get phone calls and cards and presents. I highly recommend it.
My wonderful family got me (amongst other things, including clothes that were not black) a Wacom tablet which right now is making my brain hurt but I will get the hang of it + will love it as much as my digital camera I'm sure.

a half a century or so ago on this day

in a little alpine village a child was born to Maria Therezia Heinzer + Gottlieb Rey. And they called her Edith Dora Rey. Let the bells ring! Let the rejoicing begin!

Back home sweet home

Train seat partner back, equally non-verbal, which was fine with me, but had gross habit of cleaning ears with fingertips, looking at debris, dropping it into aisle and then sniffing fingers. Nice. All in all buoyed by trip. Encouragment + also the AGO's shows...Peter Doig (free) + David Milne (12 bucks) two fab shows + not accidentally showing at two adjoining galleries, methinks. Their work has surprising similarities...both shows uplifting + energizing, compared to many shows I saw along groovy Queen St. What is it with these TO youngsters...bleak, grim, horrific images, death, death, death. Gawd, like there's not enuf of that around in real life, so to speak. Went to an interesting lecture by Who's Who international photography-wise panel on Who's Collecting Whom? as well, Sat morn. Lectures -- mostly free -- continue this week, + next year resolve to take part in all + everything.

wonderful encouragement

provided by CONTACT reviewers. An amazing who's who of the international + canadian photography gathered at Waddington Auction house yesterday + poured over keener emerging photographers many, I was relieved to see, who were not twelve. Personally, got encouragement, + succinct advice + counsel from Bonnie Rubenstein, Festival Director, Karen Love, independent curator, arts editor, Catherine Dean, Scott Mcleod, editor of Prefix Photo mag + met the amazing "Manufactured Landscapes" photographer, Edward Burtynsky. All in all an incredibly impressive, helpful, friendly bunch. What a contrast to (most of) the arrogant Telefilm producers I met with 2 years ago, also in TO, in the "Big Flirt" fiasco.

gee + now I'm a red cluster

in TO. Sat by the most perfect train seat partner.
We exchanged, oh, say 5 words in 5.5 hours.

who's out there?

I wonder when I look at the little cluster map on the right side of the page. Each one of those little red dots is one to nine persons. Slighter larger 10-99. Well, I wonder who you are little red clusters in mysterious places...and how you found this little blog of mine.
Finally finished sorting + printing through photos...have about 25 different photographic series to show my 3 wise mentors on Friday. All three are women with formidable experience, + know how. Wonder what they'll advise me...

preparing fotos to go to

a portfolio review. Showing my fotos -- some going back 30 years to some very savvy foto types at the Waddington Gallery, under the auspices of CONTACT Toronto.TO seems a lot more organized when it comes to encouraging artists. Wonder why that is.

Happy Birthday

to Elizabeth, a fabulous artist + fabulous teacher.

the art of making money

An art that will be receiving much of my attention in the immediate future. Art making 24/7 does not appear sufficient. Must market self + skills so stayed tuned.

Look at me, Ma!

okay, so I'm not at the top of the world, but I am #790 on the Saatchi Online Gallery. Okay, so it's free+anyone can post, it's still cool. Maybe Saatchi himself will discover this middle aged emerging artist languishing in Montreal. check it out... http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=790

big month may. birthday + holiest of holy days, mother's day wherein my Kenzo supply is replenished, hint hint + spring, greenery, windows open + mega art in the works.