After Poetry

I went to the opening reception of Chris Shepherd's new show After Poetry at a new Toronto location of Bau-Xi Gallery this past weekend.  It’s great to see some old friends.  The titles of all of Shepherd‘s photographic work are carefully chosen poetry lines.

The Past Is Still. The Future Trembles. and Everything. / Everything / Overtakes Me Eventually:

I Spend A Lot Of Time Waiting Around For Something / Wonderful To Happen:

We Have Broken The Future Of Thunder:

My Skin Takes The Light:

Prophecies

Fulfilling as always, Chris Shepherd's new solo exhibition Prophecies currently at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto:

Incomplete Architectures

Chris Shepherd from his solo exhibition Incomplete Architectures currently at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto:

Congrats on a great show, Chris!

Construct

Chris Shepherd from his solo exhibition Construct, currently at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto:

Underground

Empty passage ways of Toronto's subway and Montreal's metro stations in Chris Shepherd's solo exhibition Underground currently at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto:

Sheppard + Georges-Vanier

From Photopia 2015, Chris Shepherd's Sheppard Station - Hole currently at Gallery 44, Toronto:

Image courtesy of Chris Shepherd

Georges-Vanier station when I visited Montreal, 2012:

Osgoode + Museum

Chris Shepherd at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto 2014:

Vid Ingelevics currently at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto:

Transi(en)t passages

Chris Shepherd's Beaudry Station Hallway Montreal currently at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto:

Shepherd's lovely photo of Toronto's newly renovated Dufferin Station, still in wraps, at Bau-Xi Photo earlier this year:

S+U-Friedrichstraße when I visited Berlin this summer:

Squared square

My interest in the squared square was sparked after reading Chris Shepherd's Squared.  A square is said to be squared if it is completely covered by smaller squares of integer side lengths without overlapping.  A squared square is simple if it does not contain a smaller squared rectangle.  It is perfect if all its constituent squares are of different sizes.  Discovered only as recently as in 1978 by A.J.W. Duijvestijn, the smallest possible simple perfect squared square contains 21 smaller squares and has a side length of 112, with Bouwkamp code [50, 35, 27], [8, 19], [15, 17, 11], [6, 24], [29, 25, 9, 2], [7, 18], [16], [42], [4, 37], [33]:

Quiet spaces

Thanks to Chris Shepherd - I have faith in photography again.

Last chance to see Shepherd's great show at Toronto's Bau-Xi Photo today:

My quiet space in Earl's Court, London 2013: