Notes
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Through ten “Look · See · Wind” videos, I followed the changing clouds, water, leaves, and grass, letting the invisible wind reveal itself through the world—and learning, through sustained observation, what it means to truly see the everyday.
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Looking back at twenty years of tree shadows, man-made geometries, and human silhouettes, I trace the movement of light through time and reflect on order, freedom, and the daily practice of seeing.
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A look back at how Joel Sternfeld spent more than a year walking and photographing New York’s abandoned elevated railway, creating in Walking the High Line a record of an industrial ruin’s transformation into an urban park.
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A visit to Toronto’s historic Winter Garden Theatre for the locally produced musical Let’s Dance—from its garden-in-the-sky decor to the audience spilling out after the show—becomes a fond look back at a lighthearted night on the town.
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A chance encounter with Toronto’s first Chinese anime convention—from parking-lot stalls, young entrepreneurs, and customized cars to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cosplay—captures the fledgling energy of a new community event.
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Walking among the hundreds of tents at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, I photographed everything from paintings, sculpture, and photography to the artists, visitors, and pets—all part of the open exchange that art created in the city square.
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On Canada Day, I walked from the Art Gallery of Ontario to City Hall, photographing Toronto’s layered realities amid the wildfire haze, holiday crowds, food couriers, and slogans on city walls.
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Through photographs, writing, and cyanotype prints, The One-Eared Wolf explores the return of wolves to France’s Aubrac region. Rather than taking sides, it observes the tangled relationship among wildlife, livestock farmers, and political debate.
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A chance encounter in Hong Kong leads me into Tai Kwun, a former prison transformed into an arts complex, where Murakami’s dazzling flowers, characters, and merchandise offer an introduction to Superflat art and its tensions with commerce.
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A midsummer day on Hong Kong’s streets, observing porters in the heat, open-air food stalls, workers resting in back alleys, and people of different classes and ethnicities—a brief glimpse of everyday city life.
