folio contributorsJEREMY KEYZER studies urban systems, art history,and GIS. His Tap OK to confirm you are 17 or older portraitis inspired by the representation of identity and therelationship between sexuality and space. He loves trains,gardening, and cities. His approach to art making istemperamental.JULIETTE COOK turns to biology, nature and geometryto inspire her work. Juliette is constantly looking to hersurroundings, whether it be other art, the environmentat large or microscopic body tissues and plants cells.Through her work, she hopes to enlarge these microscopicinteractions into imaginary landscapes, free from depthand space. Her focus is to capture the unspoiled beautyof 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 astory. When not producing art as a coping mechanismfor the stresses of day to day life, Juliette is a student inInternational Development and Economics.CAROLYN BAILEY is an honors cultural studies student.Her art, which she describes as geometric rorschachnightmares, is inspired by symmetry, movement andchaos. She used lead on Mylar plastic sheet to constructTesselllation #3.HANNAH TOLKIN’s ethereal photographs showcasethose happiest and heartfelt moments which she feelscannot be accurately put into words. Her inspirations aredrawn from the locations, urban environments, peopleand landscapes which surround her. Hannah often waitsextended periods of time to develop her film as she findsjoy in rediscovering the memories which her film captures.SARAH BOO lives in dream spaces that are much toofamiliar. A second year engineering student, Sarah isinspired by “anxiety and shit”. Her artwork is an aestheticexploration of the invisible points of intensity in betweenher frequent sleep paralysis episodes. In her eyes, her workis “tinny.”CARLYN HOPKINS finds the process of art-makingtherapeutic, tactile and relational. Born into a family ofartists, drawing has always come naturally to her andbrings her to a place of serenity. She loves to doodle inidle moments and is interested in medical illustration, anart form that allows her to merge her passions for scienceand fine arts. She calls her hair pieces Lecture Study 1 and 2,“wonderfully repetitive!”JOSEPH HENRY and GRACE BROOKS work togetherto produce spiteful, caring, vulnerable, attached, and also‘hard’ work: “vulnerable like a gall, like a gall with a bigbug in it.” Featured in this issue are just four pages fromLet X=X, a work Joseph and Grace ideally see in portabledocument format or printed in a zine. You can view thecomplete work here: bit.ly/Y7sgyG. Advertisements,ambivalence, missionaries, Outlook Web, people wholike salads with quinoa in them and probably have dogs,caps lock, people who would never have dogs or saladswith quinoa, and the feeling of being minimally rebelliousare all critical influences of their work. Joseph, a jointhonors student in art history and German studies, sees hisartistic inclinations and life as a McGill student existing inopposition, the McGill Daily comments section being acrucial site for inspiration. Grace, a student of physiologyand physics, turns to art making as an alternative to herdisappointment from consumption of other media,without which she wouldn’t know how to exist.TAMARA AUGUSTEN fills up mini Moleskines and theedges of notebooks with doodles. Currently in her finalsemester of East Asian studies and economics, Tamara’smass drawing sprees often occur without purpose asforms of distraction or to avoid filling in grad schoolapplications. Her work is inspired by cityscapes, organismsinhabiting them, and relationship dynamics.SARAH COOK describes her geometric paint-on-paperpieces as “the kind of thing you can make in a coupleof minutes while watching a movie”. She maintains thatMcGill has helped bring out the artist in her, becauseas a “reluctant” fourth-year international developmentstudent, most of her pieces are the fruition of dull lectures.CATHERINE POLCZ views art making as a housekeepingnecessity. After her undergraduate degree, her creativemind had a lot of catching up to do. Now pursuing aMasters degree in plant science, she paints early in themorning or late at night while listening to podcasts andis inspired art and fiction induced mini-revelations. Herwork addresses the mysterious ability of portraiture as ameans 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 parasiticartwork. He is inspired by difference, machines,perception, organs, animals, ticks, mayflies, jellyfish,country rats and city rats. After time at film school anda 35mm film project gone wrong, Thomas now focuseson “minor quotidian photography.” His photography isan ongoing experiment in learning the qualities of light.Thomas is a Masters student in cultural studies.
Thanks to the AUS Fine ArtsCouncil, the Students’ Society ofMcGill University, and the Deanof Arts Development Fund fortheir generous support.
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