Elsewhat

Alley piece by Chado.

It’s the time of year where the sun sets very close to “Montréal North”, which is actually North-West, and so shines perfectly down many streets and even narrow alleys.

This piece by Menashe Kadishman was absolutely stunning in person.

Viewed up close, the massive scale of the steel work becomes apparent and its structural viability even more difficult to comprehend. With no visible evidence of the engineering holding the sculpture up…

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This is a photo I took a few weeks back of The Butterfly Chair, which was creating by welding together American 50 cent coins onto a steel frame. Created by artist Johnny Swing.

One of my last photos from New York City. A confluence of layers.

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:

Taken May 26, 2023

Trees seen through torn metal. Taken in Montréal in Rosemont on May 16, 2023.

Reading through Robert MacFarlane’s Underland (a book I’ll write about more once I’ve finished it) I stumbled on ‘The Cavern of Lost Souls’. The cavern is an abandoned Welsh mine, which at one point became a popular way for the locals to dispose themselves of old cars.

The locals would reportedly take cars they no longer wanted to a certain point above the mine shaft, put them in neutral, and let them roll to their doom. The result was hundreds of broken cars creating this nightmarish, but eerily beautiful underground space.

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