The Extinct Folktek Omnichord

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

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Listening. Always listening

Do NOT come looking for me. We do not attend the same functions.

Sally Gall, Caitlin, 1996

The Girl in the Window, Kabukicho 歌舞伎町

I sent you omens and all kinds of signs please respond

Tomona Matsukawa - Tonight, was I really with someone?, 2025 - Oil on canvas