CREATING IN A TIME OF GLOBAL SOLITUDE AND EMPTINESS
During this time of global solitude and emptiness in our cities and countries, I have been expressing myself through my creations. HANGING AROUND TOWN In my previous post, I talked about creating a book called, Hanging Around Town, starring Ms Silky Scarf, two buskers: Mr. Lapointe and Mr. Flett and a gentleman I met from Bejing, China, Mr. Liu. The photos were sent off to the printers and have been returned to be bound into a book. I found an outdated map of the City of Ottawa and decided to use it to cover the boards of the book. It had that used, hands-on look to it and it was the perfect match to the photo book. This city map, on the front cover, includes the Byward Market location where all the photographs, in the book, were taken. The endpaper is another section of the map and the fly leaf is of a wall mural found in the Byward Market district. The introduc...