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  Yan Wen Chang: Magnum Noirus

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  Kids R’nt Us

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  The Art of Nature: Edward Burtynsky’s “Natural Order”

  Our neuro systems, our vascular systems and our nervous systems are all branches. They’re all complex, interwoven branches of supply chains that send life to our extremities, like the branches and the bushes do to the leaves. I was looking at nature almost as if I were looking at the structures of our inner body.

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  Walking the Talk and Talking the Walk

  “I was taking a walk and I saw a particular nearby parking lot,” she says. “I think I was hit by the muse.”

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  The Life of Bones

  “When I’m photographing, I’m trying so much to be with the skull as a skull, as a carrier of feelings and structure, that I don’t relate to anybody else at the time.”

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  Recovery Artist

  Alex Bierk has both feet firmly planted in the present because he has two feet rooted in the past. His past was a difficult one: an accomplished family with six siblings to emulate, and fail to measure up to; the death of both parents four years apart; and a lengthy descent into various addictions followed by a nine-month-long rehabilitation.

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  Objective Portraiture

  Luther Konadu, the Winnipeg-based photographer and writer, is on a roll. In 2019 he won three national competitions: BMO’s 1st Art!, the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award and the Salt Spring National Art Prize. He has done residencies at Salt Spring Island and at Gallery 44 in Toronto, where he was writer-inresidence, and was commissioned by the ‘New Yorker’ magazine to do a portrait of Roberto Carlos Lange, the electronic folk pop singer who performs under the name Helado Negro.

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  Blanket Approval

  When Vancouver-based painter Kim Dorland paints his wife and muse, he likes to wrap her in a blanket.

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  That’s Photography with a D

  Ed Burtynsky

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  Conundrumming

  Because Melanie Authier’s paintings are inventions and not renderings of an existing landscape, she has been reluctant to accept her work having been labelled sublime in the classic Romantic sense.

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  Embodied Confusions

  To properly appreciate Jen Aitken’s sculptures, you have to walk around them, get down low to see into their interior spaces, and look closely at the places where one material shifts into another.

• Irradiant Sightings

  David McMillan

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