Pape Ave Footbridge: South of Pape Ave Jr Public School, digging for Gerrard Portal where Ontario Line awaits Tunnel Boring Machines for subterranean northbound towards Pape Station. GO Train corridor had widening at bridges for overground. Site scheduled for restoration March 2028. (Toronto)
Pape Avenue Footbridge: View southwest shows Gerrard Portal construction, transition where GO Train corridor arcs northeast, and Ontario Line subway will route northward. Tunnel Boring Machines that will align with subterranean Pape Station. Can see The Real Jerk on Carlaw Ave. (Riverdale, Toronto)
The Gloucester on Yonge: Sculpture #AlbertPaley (2021) Cloaked Presence installed by #ConcordAdex as Percent for Public Art Program for Private Development. Visual presence correlated with 50-storey verticality of apartment tower. Late afternoon, still biking in winter jacket. (Toronto, Ontario)
Congee Wong: Met online, early lunch with #JonathanHui on quick visit from Vancouver. Splitting hairs on dyadic in Chinese philosophy, more processual Warring States period (yinyang), vs more structural Han Dynasty Daoists (daojia). Emphasis on science vs political-military. (North York, Ontario)
Kettleman Bagel: Friday repeat of Thursday stop for bagels, since original flight was cancelled. Baking felt hotter than yesterday, fresh out of oven. Debating about transfer from paper bag to plastic, steaming in suitcase for the next 6 hours. (Browns Line, Etobicoke, Ontario) 20260410
Kettlemans Bagel: Packing still-hot Montreal-style bagels into suitcase, en route to SFO. Retail branch is easy stop halfway from downtown to Pearson Airport, open 24 hours. Needed larger suitcase for presents for newborn grandson, from family and friends. (Browns Line, Etobicoke) 20260409
Ship Channel: Southern edge of Ookwemin Minising (Villiers Island), industrial waterway completed in 1922. South Port district is planned for modernized light industry to support employment in neighbourhood. To the east, concrete storage silos on Leslie Street. (Port Lands, Toronto) 20260404
Don River Mouth Renaturalized: Don River flow restored south of Keating Channel since June 2024. Commissioners Street Bridge opened January 2024, string of orange floats mark former north plug removed November 2024. Ducks and geese enjoying the water. (Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario) 20260404
Keating Channel: From Don Roadway, 2.4 km stub of elevated Gardiner Expressway extension not removed until 2030. Public realm at the water's edge will come with realignment of Lakeshore Boulevard northward. Cherry Street bridge in distance lines up intersection. (Keating Channel at Don Roadway)
Ignite Gallery: Wall hangings and sculptures #MadelineWilmink (2026) Points of Contact exhibition. Entanglement between insects and humans revealed through skeletal castings of recycled iron and bronze. Materiality of biological life cycles against aspirations of industrialization. (OCAD U)
OCADU Graduate Gallery: Room full of #JonaParra (2026) B-Side exhibition. Entered room to find large circular forms of black paper fragments, revealed with collage on the other side. A meditation on repetition, labour and choice, reflecting the tension between burden and agency. (Toronto) 20260402
Canadian Film Fest: After viewing #TacoBoy and #AFarewellToYouth, talkback session. Short film represented by DOP #AnthonyWegner. Full length feature with Producer-Director-Writer #AdamJack, DOP #JasonLupish, and actress #JasmineAxolusSimmons. Local Ontario productions (Scotiabank Theatre Toronto)
Scotiabank Theatre Toronto: Invited to attend #CanadianFilmFest to view #AFarewellToYouth. Red carpet, in anticipation of seeing Associate Producer in the end credits. Production in Niagara region. (Scotiabank Theatre, Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario) 20260329
The Beaches: Afternoon celebration of (great)granddaughter 100 day milestone in private party room. Baby emerged after feeding and good nap. Girl of honour was presented to a rapid series of elders and toddlers. (The Beaches, Toronto, Ontario) 20260328
Jim Chai Kee: Shrimp wonton and egg noodles delivered to table within minutes of ordering. Even cutting the long noodles, leisurely time is required to consume the broth and contents. At back table, young staff member was coached by elders to dumpling folding technique. (Scarborough, Ontario)
Digital Futures OCAD U: Interactive installation #GolnoushMirsalari (2026) Synaptic Echoes cocreates with movements of participants and technical system. Audiovisual behaviour accumulates and delays through three-layer memory model: immediate response, temporal echo, and long-term trace.
YYZ Artists Outlet: Puzzling at #RichardIbghy and #MarilouLemmens (2018) Proportion of Non-Shirkers to Shirkers Attracted to Unstable Firms collage. Visualization of economic phenomena abstract the power relations in academic journals. Part of the Measures of Inequity series. (Toronto)
A Space Gallery: Showcase of #AlaaAbuSaif (2024) acrylic on canvas paintings for Gaza Biennale: Bleeding Wound; Meeting at the Tents; On the Ruins of Home; Broken; Famine; The Road to Pain; Journey of Displacement; Streets of the City. Scenes of displacement, destruction and endurance. (Toronto)
Web video on "The Importance of Recognizing the Systemic Thinking of Indigenous Sages and Scholars" by #NormaRomm #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences 2026-02-25 vimeo.com/1168257341 . Mention of "sciencing" coauthored with #GarySMetcalf from 2003 coevolving.com/blogs/scienc... 1 hour in.
OCADU Great Hall: Monochrome #Yutao (2026) Neck Practicing digital print mounted off-axis invites looking closer. Part of the [Lab]yrinth exhibition of first year students in Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program. Artwork installed away from crowded space. (Toronto, Ontario)
OCADU Great Hall: Hanging by threads and moving lightly with air currents, #EvanBulloch (2026) Snow Scenes is white gel pen on three sheets of silver fleck tissue paper. Part of [Lab]yrinth exhibition of first year students in Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design program. (Toronto)
Ignite Gallery: Suspended from ceiling, #YifanZhang (2026) Bruises is a mixed textile installation of wool, on three layers of silk organza. Part of #InTheSpaceBetween show, wool fibers are pierced, compressed and shaped through needle felting and wet felting. Biomorphic forms. (Toronto)
OCADU Graduate Gallery: Group exhibition #ToGather, #AndreasKratschmer (2026) Sacred Water, salvaged wood and bark, 50 inches long. Materials freshly cut as green, introducing natural processes of tension, warping, and cracking through drying, then amplified using fire and steam. (Toronto)
OCADU Grad Gallery: Group exhibition #ToGather, foreground #TaniaLove (2025) F[A.L.L.O.W] paintings of botanicals collected in Poland, in vintage books, letters blotted out with wild clay leaving small phrases. Background (2010) Wianek, paper wildflowers and artificial florals from cemetery waste.
Agincourt South: After dim sum, 15 minute walk taking turns to push father on transport chair from Brimley Road to McCowan Road. Morning errand resulted in flat tire, so routed to Perfect Chinese Restaurant with Canadian Tire one long block east. (Sheppard Ave East, Scarborough, Ontario) 20260316
OCADU Graduate Programs: Lecture in Interdisciplinary Forum series by #PeterCoppin on Cross-Sensory Interaction Design. Research on perceptual-cognitive framework from pictorial information to symbolized information. Project constructed 3D audio-tactile globe enables geo-spatial information.
OCADU Graduate Gallery: Visual Theology exhibition on Sacred Landscapes #NoraAlkeyat (2025) Faculty of Intellect oil and gouache on wood panel. Rational power in soul: Excess as Arrogance, in cloud and shadow; Deficency as Ignorance, Allegory of the Cave; Wisdom as Balance with a brain-like tree.
Riverside neighborhood: Sons collaborating on diagnosing leak through ground floor ceiling, in the cleanest way possible. Cutting, vacuuming, catching in basin. Determined clean water, possible leak from pipe in bathroom above. (Riverside neighbourhood, Toronto, Ontario) 20260311
Wok & Roast: Business lunch looking ahead to Problematique Dialogue event in May, and Team Green direction on topic of scientific progress, entrepreneurship, economic viability. Considering profiles of participants, open spaces likely to reach capacity next week. Full bandwidth meeting in person.
OCADU Great Hall: Large canvas 7 x 10 foot #KyraKaushal (2026) Union. Two figures reaching out. Looking up materials of sindoor (red cosmetic powder) and rangoli powder (calcite, limestone), alongside acrylic and chalk powder. (OCADU Great Hall, McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20260305
