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a shoe massacre

Tires, boats, paintball, fires and shoes. Packard Automotive, May 2012.

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Forever the passenger, roadside forests are fleeti

Forever the passenger, roadside forests are fleeting moments of flickered light through the trees and blurred canopies. Visual magic.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DriveByPhoto #Leica #FilmIsNotDead

I am thrilled to have this piece included in the T

I am thrilled to have this piece included in the Tom Thomson Art Gallery’s juried exhibition ‘Convergence’ along side some seriously talented artists from the community! The exhibition explores environmental themes including ecology, climate change, sustainability, and our evolving relationship with the natural world.

🙏 to jurors Kristine Moran, Martin Pearce, and Jennifer Norman.

Convergence opens this Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, and runs until January 17.

behind the curtain, archival inkjet print from a unique mordançage print.

#NothingIsOrdinary @tomthomsonartgallery #TomThomsonArtGallery #mordançage #DesireLines

what happens next is not universal #NothingIsOrd

what happens next
is
not universal

#NothingIsOrdinary #CutOutPoems #wip

A myth spread the only warning. Playing with m

A myth
spread
the
only warning.

Playing with my cut out poems from the weird times. #wip
#NothingIsOrdinary #CutOutPoem

tungsten lightbulb And for those curious about s

tungsten lightbulb

And for those curious about some tungsten facts….

Tungsten (W, atomic number 74), also called Wolfram, is a silver-grey metallic element with the highest melting point of any metal (3410° C). Tungsten has a high density, high strength at elevated temperatures, and extreme hardness. Tungsten metal was first isolated in 1783.

Tungsten is used to make wear resistant abrasives cutting tools, hard permanent magnets (with steel), the printing nozzle for 3D printing, and the filament in incandescent light bulbs.

Oxides of tungsten are used in manufacturing of ceramic glazes, and tungsten salts are used in chemical and tanning industries.

Canada was a major producer of tungsten ore and concentrate until 1986, when increased exports from the China caused a price collapse and eventually forced Canadian mining operations to close.

#NothingIsOrdinary #photogram #Tungsten

Little 4003, Chemical Valley, Sarnia, ON. #Nothi

Little 4003, Chemical Valley, Sarnia, ON.

#NothingIsOrdinary #DroningTheWorld #DJIMini3Pro #DesireLines

cumulonimbus skyscape. A panorama of cumulonimbus

cumulonimbus skyscape.

A panorama of cumulonimbus clouds over the Caribbean Sea, photographed with a Holga, and the film souped in suncreen, salt, and lime ~characteristics of the water in tourist-heavy beach areas.

#NothingIsOrdinary #holga #FilmSoup #kodak #FilmIsNorDead #DesireLines

27 years with @fossil.hunting.collective ! ⚡️🦄💖

This is the year we put on a beach spectacle.

#NothingIsOrdinary

I made some phytograms with materials from my gard

I made some phytograms with materials from my gardens during a heat alert day in July.

#NothingIsOrdinary #Phytogram

frame 12 I took my Holga on a trip to leak light

frame 12

I took my Holga on a trip to leak light on film, and it did not disappoint.

#NothingIsOrdinary #Kodak #Holga #FilmIsNotDead

heat wave in the garden #NothingIsOrdinary #lumen

heat wave in the garden

#NothingIsOrdinary #lumenprints #Ilford #heatwave

What a gorgeous day for a bike tour and paste up w

What a gorgeous day for a bike tour and paste up workshop! Thank you to 🙏 everyone who came out to ride & paste with us!

We were also please to see (mirror magic - last slide) survived an arson fire access point and now exists upside down!

Thank you to @media___trix & @wish_you_webe_hepe !

And thanks to @mister._.rain for many of our graphics and @justt.hunter4 for being assistant extroidinare and painting so many of them for today!

🦋🌸🌻🌳

#NothingIsOrdinary #CAFKA25 #TheLandscapeIsdead @annagtprint @cafkabiennial @thelandscapeisdead

The kid is FOURTEEN! 🐈🐈‍⬛🙀 ⚡️🎈

The kid is FOURTEEN! 🐈🐈‍⬛🙀 ⚡️🎈

Just yesterday we were meeting for the first time…

#NothingIsOrdinary

Come play with Anna and I this Sunday for a short

Come play with Anna and I this Sunday for a short ~45-minute bike ride/show & tell of our paste ups installed for CAFKA.25 around Downtown Kitchener. The bike tour begins at Red Raccoon Bike Rescue (12:30pm), and ends at Angie’s Waterloo (closed) for a community paste up at the site of the CAFKA.23 billboard!

Participants must bring their own bicycles for this tour.

We will share tips and tricks for outdoor urban paste up and create a collaborative piece together. Send us your own image or text artworks to be ready for paste-up at the workshop. Ready-to-paste artworks and texts, as well as paste and paste up tools will be made available at the community paste up site.

Joining the bike tour is not required and you can meet us at Angie’s Waterloo at 1:45pm.

Artwork must be received by July 15th in order for it to be printed for the workshop.
PDF or JPEG files are preferred
Maximum print size of 11” x 17”
High resolution files work best (150-300 dpi)
Email files to: thelandscapeisdead@gmail.com

Visit LandscapeIsDead.com (link in bio) for links and more details.

@cafkabiennial
#CAFKA25 #TheLandscapeIsDead #pasteUp

Our billboards sell nothing! #TheLandscapeIsDead

Our billboards sell nothing!

#TheLandscapeIsDead #CAFKA25
@annagtprint @thelandscapeisdead @cafkabiennial

illusory forest has moved to Victoria St. N and Ce

illusory forest has moved to Victoria St. N and Centennial Rd. in Kitchener and will be on view until the end of July for CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory.

Anna and I chose this location so that the artwork would be nestled in the trees that surround the billboard infrastructure; but it wasn’t until we went to document the work that we learned that the private property was once a city owned apple orchard that became orphaned and inaccessible by the changing landscape around it and so it was sold to the expand the vehicle impound lot.

Our project, “The Landscape is Dead” reflects the intersection of the landscape and the built environment for contemplation, to illuminate the complex and troubling questions about human impacts on the natural world.

@cafkabiennial #CAFKA25

art by me! frame by me! car window forest is rea

art by me! frame by me!

car window forest is ready for Almanac - @g44photo ’s annual members’ survey exhibition!

It’s not a quick process, but being able to make a unique frame for irregular sized work and not look cheap just feels good.

Thanks 🙏 to my Dad @mikeforsey for the miter jig (last photo of the glue-up) and all the wood - the spline is purple heart and frame is cherry.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype

And just like that, elementary school is done and

And just like that, elementary school is done and high school is on the horizon.

Hunter graduated from grade 8 today and was the 2025 recipient of the Academic Award as well as a JAG (for students who leave their mark) from John Galt P.S.! We are so proud of them.

Next up, summer vacation
- they deserve it!

#NothingIsOrdinary

Where Things Burn is only ~46km round trip by bike

Where Things Burn is only ~46km round trip by bike from Guelph! The route is mostly cycle friendly (trails and painted lanes) and 3 hours round trip if you are slow but steady like myself (and my cycle pal @mike_darmon ) and riding a 30lb bike loaded with camera gear 🤪.

Anna & I are planning a ride out that way in July - weather and air quality permitting. Let me know if you want to join us, we stop in Hespeler Village (where the billboard is), for a food, refreshments, and bird watching 🔎🐦‍⬛🚲.

#NothingIsOrdinary @annagtprint @thelandscapeisdead #TheLandscapeIsDead #CAFKA25

Where Things Burn at CAFKA.25 currently on view at

Where Things Burn at CAFKA.25 currently on view at Victoria St N & Centennial Rd in Kitchener, and Guelph Ave & Sheffield St in Hespeler Village Cambridge.

This work is one of 3 billboards artworks (and several paste-up interventions!) for “CAFKA.25: field guide to the understory” throughout Kitchener & Cambridge from my collaboration with Anna Gaby-Trotz under the moniker
The Landscape is Dead”.

Our work reflects the intersection of the landscape and the built environment for contemplation, to illuminate the complex and troubling questions about human impacts on the natural world.

Can we save the world by looking?

Visit TheLandscapeIsDead.com to see all our works for CAFKA.25 (link in bio).

🙏 to @cafkabiennial for the support realizing the billboards and @ontarioartscouncil for their continued support.

#NothingIsOrdinary @annagtprint @thelandscapeisdead #CAFKA25

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