Simone

Portraits

3343 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4N 2M6 647-352-3624

Portraits
T-buds | February 2016
3343 Yonge St, Toronto ON M4N 2M6 · 647-352-3624
http://t-buds.com

Usually there is a deep, philosophical reason for the combination of pieces that I include an exhibition. And in this case there is as well. Because it’s Black History Month, I’m doing it this way. It’s about colour harmony, colour combination. The use of colour on different materials. And portraits of people real and imagined who had something to say. Something to share. Something to tell you. There is something that your history is telling you here.

A young man about ten years old told me when he saw them that he’d never seen anything like that in his life. “Wow!” he said. How did you think of that?

Years ago, I realized that all the years I spent studying Art History as required credits in the Fashion Design degree and Graphic Design diploma I received/achieved had sunk so deep into my psyche that I now believed things I learned were original ideas. I think that had something to do with being barely awake during history class.

Why scheduled a lecture with still images at 8am in the comfortable seating of a theatre? Don't get me wrong. I loved the information. I brought a lovely coffee. I curled up in the dim lighting. I fell into a trance and I remembered it all differently than I had expected.