The Transition to Professional Caretakers

This is about my experience in the business environment. I talk in gender binary terms as I identify as a woman and do not feel comfortable speaking on behalf of LGBTQ+ folks or PoC. Furthermore, the analysis is exclusively tied to traditional business environments and not creative fields, although there are gender discrepancies there as well — but that warrants an entire new essay.

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Unleashing the Matriarch

A critical piece that dives in the image of the matriarch from the perspective of the mother-son and muse-photographer relationship perspective. The piece is based on Charlie Engman’s ‘Mom’ exhibit which was held in Toronto during the 2018 Scotia Bank Contact Photography Festival.

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Back to the Future 4

In November of last year, someone stole my backpack. My metaphysics books was in it and was one of the possessions I lost. The book was probably casted away since it is difficult to gauge its value (the value is high). This is some words I wrote in response to one of my favourite essays in it — The Paradoxes of Time Travel by David Lewis. Let’s nerd out about it together.

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Feelings

It feels like a choking hazard; a disintegration of faith; a morphism of the real that is accessible to human consciousness; a train at full speed that loses control; a traffic light that has lost power in the middle of rush hour; a hurricane; a moral dilemma; uncertainty devastation anxiety depression psychosis I haven’t written […]

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The Art of Repetitiveness

This is a part two of sorts, a lengthy manifesto of what I take art to be and how it changes along the lines of the unfolding present. Words will be spoken of my opinions on the digitization of all human properties and how it hinders truthful perception, as well as serve as a gateway for the production of an overflow of “meaningless” artworks. To aid my hypothesis, I will reference artists from the 1960s, such as Andy Warhol and even Marshall McLuhan, and juxtapose them with examples of contemporary art.

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