Monday, September 25, 2017

Sunday Walk



Duplex is an independent project space and studio collective accessible through the alley behind 4257 Fraser Street. I walked there yesterday for the last hour of Emily Hill's excellent It is Hard to Tape a Fish exhibition of "rug paintings." Of course the work is more than that -- more than rugs and more than painting -- and more than paint, too, for that matter.

Here is a picture of one of the four works on display:


For more on Emily's project, visit her website (proper documentation and illustrative text forthcoming).

When I arrived at Duplex, Emily and Steffanie were sitting outside in the sun. While chatting we noticed some graffiti on the fence across from us: two figures, one of which looked like it had had its boards rearranged by the person who owns the fence. Or is this what the artist intended?


"It looks wilful," said Steffanie, and indeed it did. A well-placed work of art for artists and audiences coming and going from Duplex.

At 724 East 24th I noticed another instance of public mark-making -- this one by City of Vancouver Engineering.


I guess the logic here is, Since we're gonna tear up your garden, we might as well spray paint over your plants. Yet another tale from the emergent mercenary city.

After that, a sculpture in the alley behind the 900-block of East 22nd.


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