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#yearinreview thanks for following me in 2025 🎩

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recently spotted Glenn Gould statue outside CBC Headquarters in Toronto 🎹 #glenngould

grounded at home with COVID, I was at least able to do some watercolour; here's my latest attempt at a fragment of brains turned to glass recovered from Herculaneum 🌋 🧠 💎 🖌️ #glassifiedbrains #vitrifiedbrains #Herculaneum #brainsturnedtoglass

watching Romy and Michele's High School Reunion with Lucienne 📺

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Alize Zorlutuna, Surface Tension: Cloudstone [Battal], Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art's SPACE Billboard Commission 2025-26 🪧 𖡴 ✨ #alizezorlutuna

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Cynthia Chapman at Christopher Cutts Gallery 🌟

I needed to develop COVID symptoms on Christmas day like I need a hole in the head; oh well, we made the best of it. A day later, and I'm starting to improve (likely thanks to getting the latest vaccine), and here's the first of our mystery street orchids beginning to bloom to brighten the day 🤒 🌸

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making the best of a COVID Xmas 🤒🥺 missing family and our annual trip to Ottawa, but trying to keep things festive at home 🎄 🌱 ✨

"The lyrics are an ode to the Virgin Mary, containing many metaphors about love and nature grounded in Quechua culture ... with neither interpretation dominant. Surprisingly, two terms relating to the Pleiades are prominent ... the Pleiades symbolized fecundity, a major theme of this song" ✨ 🎶

hoping Saturn brings you your preferred sigillaria this Saturnalia 🪐 🎅 🎄 🎎 ✨ #happysaturnalia

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some details of @xpacecc's current exhibitions, 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶, 𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓻𝓮, 𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓲𝓻 : 1) Miguel Caba, "Mothers / Gardens"; and 2) Maddy Young, 3) Patrick Stochmal, and 4) Wu Jing, in "I scrub myself until my skin is raw", with an essay by Mason Smart: www.xpace.info/wp-content/u...

a few details of Jennifer Murphy, Grains of Sand at Clint Roenisch 💎 🌺 𓆤

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a few details from HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, How Is Where You Are at Mercer Union 📱💡🪔🏮💸

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Douglas Coupland at Daniel Faria Gallery 🎻

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just a few details from Patel Brown: Five Years of Art, Collaboration & Community at Patel Brown Gallery : 1) Rajni Perera, 2) Winnie Truong, 3) Native Art Department International, 4) Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka 🗓️ 🎉 #patelbrown

The Brutalist Wolverhampton School of Art building, home to England’s first National Black Art Convention, has been granted Grade II listed status, saving it from demolition. buff.ly/e6W4PM4

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a few views of Jeff Wall - Photographs 1984–2023 at MOCA Toronto 📸 👏👏 #JeffWall #mocatoronto

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just a few details from the superbe Tim Whiten exhibition, Transpire at Olga Korper Gallery 📖 💀 🧈 ✨ #timwhiten

In the halls of the U.S. Capitol, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation will replace a Confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.

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This 1163-year-old cedar tree stump from the Niagara Escarpment holds annual climate records in its tree rings. These yearly records coincide with the sediment records in nearby Crawford Lake.

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#orchid buds ready to burst after years of patient watering: plant picked up off the street with no flowers, their debut now long-awaited ⏰ 🌱

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my article on some of Vera Frenkel's lesser-known installations of the 1970s, such as No Solution: A Suspense Thriller, which I explore through combined computational and Laruellian frames, and was published in the print issue of the Journal of Canadian Art History, is now available through Jstor 👍

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went to go see Wicked: For Good with Lucienne - was thinking about Michelet's La Sorcière, which I'm still reading 📽️ 🧙🏻‍♀️ 🧹 📖 image: John William Waterhouse, Magic Circle, 1886 #wickedforgood #lasorcière

a sneak peak of the Rita Letendre exhibition opening later today at Gallery Gevik 🌠 #ritaletendre #gallerygevik

a handful of details from Christmas Spice 2025 at Paul Petro Contemporary Art : 2) Moira Clark, 3) Mark Bell, 4) Ron Giii 🎄 🖼️ ✨

a few details of the group show Canadian Photographs: 1950 – Present at Stephen Bulger Gallery 📸

a few details, and some familiar faces, from Dimitri Levanoff’s BEING THERE: Portraits from the Toronto Art Community, curated by David Liss, at Koffler Arts's new 3rd-floor space at Youngplace on Shaw 📸

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Samuelle Grande at Nicolas Robert Toronto 🦋 🍀 ♡ #galerienicolasrobert #samuellegrande

some views of Jeremy Laing's Mutuality at Susan Hobbs Gallery 🪑 ⛓️ ✨ @susanhobbsgallery.bsky.social #jeremylaing

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Tracey Snelling, Intergalactic Planetary, at Koffler Arts at Artscape Youngplace 🏢 📽️ 💡 #kofflerarts #traceysnelling