Issue 8

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Claire Bourgeois
Erin Spangler
Jonathan Aird
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Jordan Deutsch
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About
Folio is a student-run visual art and design magazine that
acts as an ongoing archive of McGill’s artistic community
by providing a venue for student artists to showcase their
work. It is published biannually.
Cover: Jeremy Keyzer
Facing page: Juliette Cook
All contents © the respective artists.
Opinions expressed in Folio are not necessarily those of McGill University.

folio magazine :
Issue 8 — Fall 2012
Contents
Tessellation #3
Carolyn Bailey
Falling Up
Hannah Tolkin
st30
sn31
Sarah Boo
lecture study 1 and 2
Carlyn Hopkins
Let X=X
Joseph Henry
Grace Brooks
The Furlongs
Tamara Augusten
Calvin Klein
Sarah Cook
Yellow Sarah, 2012
Margit on a Visit Home, 2012
Catherine Polcz
‘jellyfish babies’
Thomas Pringle

CAROLYN BAILEY
Tessellation #3

HANNAH TOLKIN
Falling Up

SARAH BOO
st30

sn31

CARLYN HOPKINS
lecture study 1 and 2

immmm soooooooooooooooooooooo dumb and retarded You're gonna burn out at
this rate and recede, a technosocial parabola
LET X = X !!!!
Think about all the time people struggle to
create formulas to describe our universe, only to
have them crumble when something new is
observed. It's like coming up with a logical way
to explain the earth's rotation... and then
realizing the sun exists. I know what I know
because I count it out, he said. Good morning
sunshine! I think that joseph is pretending to
be me in this paragraph ya kno what i mean look
at the next paragraph (3 6 9 9 2 1 2 5 7 0 3 6 9
9). Terminal-ID: 56516134. I know what I know
because I deal with it, he said. By counting it
out I asked? I’m learning how to not equate the
numbers (but I’m in the lead with 4>3), but he
said, he’s glad he knows he can fuck someone
totally repulsive and LAST.
MWST 417,00 MwST. 7 % 30,00, MwST. 19 %. I could
only handle so much, there was a limit, it was
about 10 MINUTES.
HEY
or you can just talk to me
pillow talk
me
i mean i will be repeating that essay 2 u
but in Presence

for two kings Ok.. Lets do this ,, You please be safe , clean, disease free, and looking for this
morning. No B/S or losers please. Please reply with Stats, Ethnic background, what you are
into / looking for . Pics would be great also.. Send and I will return I am open to anything safe,
sane , and that does not involve any scat , urine etc. Prefer White guys, Bi / MM / STR8 +++,
Cut ++, Hairy ++++ How about you ? Me, 32, white, 5'9, 165, br/br, 31w, hairy. 6', white,
175, in shape, vgl, and horny for a discreet buddy
I got pics, ready here, looking for now!!!
I just got out of a very tough complicated relationship with an
older man who used me for sex from a frustrated old man named
Mathieu 70 yo man who can't get sex because of his physical
handicap
old bag no life ,
mess in the head ,
he got no friends .
Ilived with him I had to cater to his needs and even though I am
shameful I act like a kid when I am 27 yo
The manipulation and being mistreated got to me that I couldn t
do it anymore cause I had no money to pay the rent I am now on
my own putting Mathieu behind me
I love sex with people my age and to make friends my own age I
am looking for simple uncomplicated fun for now as a possible
relationship can be possible if the right person comes along
I am 5 feet 9 140 lbs
I love barefeet I am looking for black guys & latino guys open
to all races and if anyone has a foot fetish like myself that
would like to share & explore each other's feet
why not?
anyone take math142a and want to help me out?
JOSEPH HENRY
GRACE BROOKS
Let X=X

Everyone I’m attracted to is a variation on a theme.
Modifications on an origin.
Start with the normal curve and move out.
Somewhere between m + 2s and m - 2s is the kind of thrill from a calculated text
message, getting felt up by binary code
HE CAME ON PRETTY
STRONG.. IT WAS KIND OF
AWKWARD TO BE HONEST
(sometimes 100101001 brings the wrong émotion to the wrong person)
I think of the process of continuation as the same process as
what I’m doing. Take a little stretch of answer
and then build the next tau
minutes on it.
i hate caring about everything more than everyone else cares about them
Given the simple simple variables: how much power i have
how much power they have
how smart do i think they are
how smart do they think i am
Then it is easy to construct a family of related solutions. The density flow is firmly
maximized within the region of ‘heartbreaker’.
I am listening to the people talking in the garden outside my window, and someone I want to fuck has said ‘this is so fucked up’ in a
way that makes me know that he cares.
MAYA INGLIS
Untitled (Ode to The Blue Hands)
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THELIMITOFMYhateISpositive.
imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever...
imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever...
imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever...
Fuck I’m showing my age.

TAMARA AUGUSTEN
The Furlongs

SARAH COOK
Calvin Klein

CATHERINE POLCZ
Yellow Sarah, 2012 and Margit on a Visit Home, 2012

THOMAS PRINGLE
‘jellyfish babies’

folio contributors
JEREMY KEYZER studies urban systems, art history,
and GIS. His Tap OK to confirm you are 17 or older portrait
is inspired by the representation of identity and the
relationship between sexuality and space. He loves trains,
gardening, and cities. His approach to art making is
temperamental.
JULIETTE COOK turns to biology, nature and geometry
to inspire her work. Juliette is constantly looking to her
surroundings, whether it be other art, the environment
at large or microscopic body tissues and plants cells.
Through her work, she hopes to enlarge these microscopic
interactions into imaginary landscapes, free from depth
and space. Her focus is to capture the unspoiled beauty
of nature, holding elements in a states of suspension.
Her work is full of juxtapositions: intuitive yet planned,
free yet controlled, open to interpretation yet holding a
story. When not producing art as a coping mechanism
for the stresses of day to day life, Juliette is a student in
International Development and Economics.
CAROLYN BAILEY is an honors cultural studies student.
Her art, which she describes as geometric rorschach
nightmares, is inspired by symmetry, movement and
chaos. She used lead on Mylar plastic sheet to construct
Tesselllation #3.
HANNAH TOLKIN’s ethereal photographs showcase
those happiest and heartfelt moments which she feels
cannot be accurately put into words. Her inspirations are
drawn from the locations, urban environments, people
and landscapes which surround her. Hannah often waits
extended periods of time to develop her film as she finds
joy in rediscovering the memories which her film captures.
SARAH BOO lives in dream spaces that are much too
familiar. A second year engineering student, Sarah is
inspired by “anxiety and shit”. Her artwork is an aesthetic
exploration of the invisible points of intensity in between
her frequent sleep paralysis episodes. In her eyes, her work
is “tinny.”
CARLYN HOPKINS finds the process of art-making
therapeutic, tactile and relational. Born into a family of
artists, drawing has always come naturally to her and
brings her to a place of serenity. She loves to doodle in
idle moments and is interested in medical illustration, an
art form that allows her to merge her passions for science
and fine arts. She calls her hair pieces Lecture Study 1 and 2,
“wonderfully repetitive!”
JOSEPH HENRY and GRACE BROOKS work together
to produce spiteful, caring, vulnerable, attached, and also
‘hard’ work: “vulnerable like a gall, like a gall with a big
bug in it.” Featured in this issue are just four pages from
Let X=X, a work Joseph and Grace ideally see in portable
document format or printed in a zine. You can view the
complete work here: bit.ly/Y7sgyG. Advertisements,
ambivalence, missionaries, Outlook Web, people who
like salads with quinoa in them and probably have dogs,
caps lock, people who would never have dogs or salads
with quinoa, and the feeling of being minimally rebellious
are all critical influences of their work. Joseph, a joint
honors student in art history and German studies, sees his
artistic inclinations and life as a McGill student existing in
opposition, the McGill Daily comments section being a
crucial site for inspiration. Grace, a student of physiology
and physics, turns to art making as an alternative to her
disappointment from consumption of other media,
without which she wouldn’t know how to exist.
TAMARA AUGUSTEN fills up mini Moleskines and the
edges of notebooks with doodles. Currently in her final
semester of East Asian studies and economics, Tamara’s
mass drawing sprees often occur without purpose as
forms of distraction or to avoid filling in grad school
applications. Her work is inspired by cityscapes, organisms
inhabiting them, and relationship dynamics.
SARAH COOK describes her geometric paint-on-paper
pieces as “the kind of thing you can make in a couple
of minutes while watching a movie”. She maintains that
McGill has helped bring out the artist in her, because
as a “reluctant” fourth-year international development
student, most of her pieces are the fruition of dull lectures.
CATHERINE POLCZ views art making as a housekeeping
necessity. After her undergraduate degree, her creative
mind had a lot of catching up to do. Now pursuing a
Masters degree in plant science, she paints early in the
morning or late at night while listening to podcasts and
is inspired art and fiction induced mini-revelations. Her
work addresses the mysterious ability of portraiture as a
means of communication. “We look at people all the time,
so what is it to look at an impression of a person?”
THOMAS PRINGLE makes malnourished and parasitic
artwork. He is inspired by difference, machines,
perception, organs, animals, ticks, mayflies, jellyfish,
country rats and city rats. After time at film school and
a 35mm film project gone wrong, Thomas now focuses
on “minor quotidian photography.” His photography is
an ongoing experiment in learning the qualities of light.
Thomas is a Masters student in cultural studies.

Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts
Council, the Students’ Society of
McGill University, and the Dean
of Arts Development Fund for
their generous support.