Gen brushes her hair, version 2.
Hrm, this one doesn’t seem to animate on the blog, but if you “click for high res version,” it works. Yeah?
Gen brushes her hair, part one.
Fiddling with animation to prepare for the first YYZ modification, going up this Thursday! I dunno how to make animated GIFs— this is my first clunky attempt. Did it work?
One chapter of Unspent Love recently won first prize in the Graphic Narrative category of THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt. It is published in the current issue (Nov/Dec 2010), on newstands now.
Many thanks to the jury: Jeff Lemire, Evan Munday and Jillian Tamaki. What an incredible honour.
During my trip this summer, I was interviewed by Robin McConnell on his CiTR radio program Inkstuds. We talked about Sword of My Mouth, Unspent Love and Blood and Thunder. Give a little listen.
Robin asked me for songs he could cut in which related to things we had talked about, so I gave him: The Weakerthans’ “Bigfoot” about trying to keep faith in something you can’t demonstrate, Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots “Making Believe” which was the only 45 my grandmother had when my dad was a baby and so played over and over again on a loop, Jim Carrey singing “Friendly World” because it relates to the small town and also because I love Andy Kauffman, and Mike Doughty’s “Thankyou Lord For Sending Out The F Train” from which the title “Unspent Love” is taken.
Between November 2010 and October 2011, Unspent Love will evolve outside of YYZ Artist’s Outlet as part of its YYZUNLIMITED program. Using the experimental space of the wall, the project will expand in a series of time-lapsed and stop motion animations of evolving wheatpastes, eventually collected and presented right here.
YYZ is located at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, in Toronto, Ontario.
Many thanks to Susan Rowe Harrison for initiating this opportunity and to Ana Barajas for supporting the work.
In November 2010, volume one of Unspent Love was launched at Open Studio’s Gallery at 401 Richmond West in Toronto along with this installation of images from the book, presented without text, in a fluid sequence that invited viewers to create their own narrative.
My dear friend, James Gauvreau, helped me install this piece and received, for his trouble, a mere stone bowl full of food and maybe some kimchi.
In 2010, I received the incredible opportunity to develop Unspent Love as a multi-media bookwork through Open Studio’s Nick Novak Fellowship. The first 17 chapters were produced in this volume that incorporates digital printing, screen, letterpress and hand binding.
Unspent Love began in 2008 over at Top Shelf 2.0 after conversations with Brett Warnock who invited me to contribute stories to this excellent selection of online serials.
You can read the developing series here:
