folio contributorsMATTHIEU SANTERRE is a political science studentand keen observer who finds inspiration in buildingsand monuments to create architectural drawings outof impromptu moments of artistic impulse. His featuredcover, Canadian Winter, comes to life on plainwhite paper with a black pen thanks to his focus onstructure and detail.AMY GOH procrastinates by making ink-on-paperdrawings. She delves into sunken cities of reverie tocreate visual collages from scraps of just-about-everything,assembling together fragments of her dreams,literature, and music. For Issue Six, she was inspired tocreate a spirit portrait of a thousand year-old mummy.More of her work can be found atwww.atlantisdreaming.org.ANNA FORAN’s collage-photomontage practice ofclipping, placing and displacing is greatly influencedby a dichotomy between the old and new, images andwords and the manual and digital. She turns to oldfamily magazines, antique stores, newspaper, paint,tape and text to combine disparate elements into aunified whole.KERRY MAGUIRE studies biology and philosophy; forher, academic work and art are two parts of a biggerpicture that she has not managed to uncover yet. Herblack and white film photos document experience andthought. Lately, she has been inspired by patterns andrepetitions: colourful textiles, daily routines, metamorphicrocks.CHANA HAOUZI is currently completing her M.Archat McGill. Non-Edit is a testament to her love for thespeed, timing, and accidental nature of watercolours.She loves to observe the unedited, mundane patternsthat constitute the personality of a location.JOANNA LAI is a student of East Asian studies who illustratesand narrate user-interface experiences throughthe incorporation of accessible electronic commoditiesas a part of the medium. In Conversation With are videostills from an installation project that features movingportraits of ten emergent creatives. The work attemptsto draw attention to the problematic fetishization ofAsian-Canadian and American women, using the contrivityof the subjects’ reciprocating gazes as a mimeticgesture towards an equally nebulous social dynamicIRL. More info: joanna-lai.comSONYA MANDUS is an art history student workingwith oil paint on transparent paper to create minimalyet striking scenes where she often depicts Barb, a fictionalmiddle-aged woman dear to her heart. Her workprocess reflects upon an intuitive aesthetic level, butlately the Banach Tarski paradox has penetrated intoher cranium.IAN MURPHY is a student of electrical engineering,who tries to connect the seemingly disparatefields of engineering and art. He, however, does notsee such a diametric opposition. Drawing inspirationfrom archi- tecture, typography and street art, Ianemerges with his currently untitled portrait series,using pen and ink, along with a catalyst of music, tochannel his creativity.LOUIS SOULARD is an art history student who usesphotography and art-making as a means of therapy.His photograph is an excerpt from a larger series thatdocuments residential ruins in Shanghai, China. Servingas a commentary on the destruction of existing residentialneighbourhoods to accommodate newer urbanreal estate, Louis uses his images to denounce passiveChinese authorities and question the ethics of a newworld superpower.GALEN MACDONALD sees a very strong two-wayrelationship between art and insomnia. He is inspiredby living in the city, riding bicycles and macaroni andcheese. His work, Untitled Desk, made of red oak andpoplar is a structural and aesthetic exploration of containmentand release.TAYLOR-ANNE SCARABELLI recently took a year’sleave from McGill and is awaiting a “big evil negativeforce” against her art practice that educational institutionsare supposed to bring. It hasn’t arrived quiteyet. In the meantime, she has created Rudy, a series of35mm photographs taking inspiration from her ownconstructed dreamland. People, the weather and nastycities are equally intriguing, so long as they are unfamiliar.
Thanks to the AUS Fine ArtsCouncil, the Students’ Society ofMcGill University, and the Deanof Arts Development Fund fortheir generous support.