“THE BEST EVENTS at DesignTO 2020” – NOW MAGAZINE

JESSICA HIEMSTRA The Sky is Falling – DesignTO 2020

Visual artist, designer and poet Jessica Hiemstra creates an abstracted paper sky on the ceiling of Canada’s only all-poetry bookstore, Knife Fork Book. Using watercolour paper, thread and washes of hand-made Genzah watercolour paint, Hiemstra’s sky is one that is torn and sewn back together. This sky has tangled stitching, punctures, long dangling threads, and fragments of poetry sewn into it. Independent bookstores and especially those that specialize in theatre, poetry, music and art are becoming rarer and rarer. Knife Fork Book is an ephemeral place. It continues to exist because its sky continues to be held together by delicate threads.

Video Production: Paul David Esposti
Music: Blue Paper by Moby, courtesy of mobygratis.com

JESSICA HIEMSTRA

THE SKY IS FALLING

NOW EXTENDED THROUGH 14 FEBRUARY 2020

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at Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street

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