The skies above Montréal, and much of the East coast, are tinted an eerie yellow orange due to smoke from forest fires. Climate change is making these sort of events more and more common.
Map of current smoke distribution by Smoke Forecast:
Spotted this little paste-up by street artist Labrona.
Here I am in my spiffy new Pink House t-shirt.
What is the pink house? Roughly three years ago, someone took it upon themselves to climb up a long-abandoned malt plant on the outskirts of downtown Montreal, and paint a part of the factory that looked like a little cabin bright pink.
To the best of my knowledge this rogue act of daredevil maintenance is a complete mystery. Nobody knows who did it or why. Later it was decorated for Christmas.
Been listening to Braids new album Euphoric Recall on repeat the last few days.
Montreal author Heather O’Neill has just launched a serialized, 50-part mystery story set in one of my favourite places, the Montréal Metro. Launched in partnership with the Montreal Gazette, where you can read more about the project.
Trees seen through torn metal. Taken in Montréal in Rosemont on May 16, 2023.
This message was tied to the fence around a beautiful park building that burned down, and which someone apparently thought the municipal government was being overly slow to fix.
As is my custom these past couple weeks, I went to see a design exhibit in the last few days of its run. The previous was W.E.B. Dubois at The Cooper Hewitt in New York City. This time it was a women in design exhibit at Montréal’s Musée des Beaux Arts—Parall(Elles).
Organized in collaboration with the Stewart Program for Modern Design, this major exhibition celebrates the instrumental role women have played in the world of design through a rich corpus of art works and objects dating from the mid-19th century onwards. In addition, it examines the reasons why women are underrepresented in the history of this discipline and encourages an expanded understanding of what constitutes design.
Chaise Sauvage by Jay Sae Jung Oh
Exploded Chair by Joyce Lin
On until May 28, 2023.
