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I have been busy busy working on a body of work for an exhibition called Open Eyes Toronto. The opening night for the show is TONIGHT!! Excited!!! I am doing this group show with a few friends from school and other artists/photographers in the city exploring different perspectives on Toronto. For my contribution, I did a Public Drawing Survey, involving people to draw their interpretations on the CN as it reflected their idea of the city. Some very interesting results...

The show is running from August 16th to the 22nd at the Gladstone Hotel. We are having a discussion session on Saturday August 20th about issues affecting our city, and teaming up with Bruce Mau's office to do this. Should be great!

For more information, please check out our website: www.openeyestoronto.com.

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New York. Part II.

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New York. Summer 2011. Part I.

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While we were on Moloka'i, the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. The island is so remote and local that we didn't have a signal for most of the trip. We had no idea that there was a tsunami coming towards us (thankfully there wasn't). Mark and I were camping near the beach when we were woken up by two police officers with flashlights telling us we had to leave because a tsunami was coming. Insane!! The sirens hadn't gone off yet at this point, so we were both in a sort of daze. The sound of the siren is something I don't think I'll ever forget...I felt like we were going to get bombed, as if we were in the middle of a war. So bizarre. We ended up moving to the middle of a giant field up near Maunaloa, and slept there until the morning. No one really talked about the "aftermath," or what could have been, so it was sort of business as usual on the island. It wasn't until we got back to O'ahu that we realized the damage in Japan was so much worse than we had anticipated. You can really feel that isolated in Hawai'i. Amazing and really unfortunate at the same time. I'm not sure what to make of our fortune. This is the second major natural disaster that I have been affected by where I have managed to come out unscathed. Is this some sort of masochistic trend? Possibly.

Halawa Bay. Unreal!

Part III up next...

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Yikes. Already the end of March and only three posts! This month has been a little hectic I guess. March consisted of: the beginnings of a consistent happy hour (yes!), a trip to sun and back, insane natural disaster #2, an emergency evacuation adventure, fears for grad school, new website biznass, apartment hunting, and being sick. Not too exciting...I'm not sure how all my time passes these days, but somehow it's the end of March and I still haven't finished the small creative projects I set out to do a few months back...

I've set up a tumblr page to help me photodump without committing to making a facebook album or a million blog posts. It's a much better way to organize, share and archive my own image library of things that are of interest to me. You can follow me here: \\/\// 

Sooooo I went to Hawai'i again for just over a week to visit Mark. It will probably be my last time on the island for a long time. Maybe until the end of the year, or the next. It was super sad to move all my things out of the apartment, and I don't think it's really sunken in yet that I've sort of closed a door on living there for a while. I finally got to see my friends Chrissy and Mika, who I spent endless hours and days with while I was in Copenhagen. Crazy reunion half way around the world! The week went by really quickly this time. I didn't get to see half the people I wanted to, but we did, as always, pack in a lot of activities for 8 days. Mardi Gras street party, Painted Highways show, Ka'ena Point hike, North Shore surfing, Makua Beach camping....Waiola shave ice!!!

Mark and I decided to take a trip to another island, and chose Moloka'i since neither of us had been previously. We flew on a small Cessna over there (about 40 minutes flight) and had no one else on the plane! It was like we had it specially chartered for the two of us :) It was an awesome way to start our 3 day trip, which was just enough time to see the island end to end. I got my dose of 4x4 action, which was soooo great. I was born to drive a Jeep. Yup. Part I of the trip:

Part II to come!!