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Felled trees get new life as wood sculptures in Montreal's La Fontaine Park

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Recently felled trees in one of Montreal's most famous parks are getting a makeover — with the trunks of century-old poplars being turned into works of art.

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jchalifour
10 days ago
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Parents decry police protest response after baby exposed to tear gas at Montreal family event

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A man holding a baby, a young girl clings to him as another man shields her face with a blanket, standing on a patch of fake grass with kids toys

Parents share how their family day turned into a nightmare after they were caught in the middle of a police intervention.

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jchalifour
24 days ago
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As messed up as this is, why is there no commentary about freedom of expression? It's as if police attitudes have become default "suppress" they seem to have pretty clearly overreacted
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What kind of Canada do we want to build?

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The economic future will belong to countries that can supply affordable, clean power for their economies.
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30 days ago
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In Miniature Models, Thomas Doyle Envisions an Unsettling Future of Technological Takeover

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In Miniature Models, Thomas Doyle Envisions an Unsettling Future of Technological Takeover

If we were to travel 500 years into the future, what would the monuments decorating public parks and town squares commemorate? Thomas Doyle takes us on an unnerving journey to imagine the culture we might encounter should our endless fascination with technology continue.

The New York-based artist (previously) toys with perception as he sculpts miniature works at 1:43 scale and smaller. His new dystopian series, Clear History, invokes classical Greek and Roman sculpture, although the venerated figures appear more as a warning than an ideal. Sharp rays pierce through a woman’s head in “Clickthrough rate,” for example, while the hunched protagonist of “Opt in” demonstrates the neck-cranking posture many of us know all too well.

a miniature figure looks up at an antique statue with a device strapped to her face
“Infinite scroll” (2024), mixed media, 22 x 13.8 x 13.8 centimeters

Interested in the long tail of culture, Doyle frequently looks to the past to better understand the consequences of our present. “I’m fascinated by the way we are hurtling toward what seems to be a new way of being human, leaping without looking, hoping for the best,” he says.

In each of the mixed-media scenes, tiny figures peer up at or sit near the weathered statues as they consider a world that’s come and gone. “The trappings of past cultures are all around us, morphed and made nearly unrecognizable over centuries,” the artist adds. “I’ve tried to trace the ways in which today’s technologies will reverberate over time. What will grow from the seeds we plant today? What becomes a venerated symbol? What serves as a cautionary myth?”

Doyle currently has a few models on view at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, and he very generously shares glimpses behind the scenes on Instagram.

a miniature person sitting at the base of a figurative statue whose face melds into a phone
“Acceptance criteria” (2024), mixed media, 21 x 15 x 15 centimeters
a small figure looks up at a statuesque figure hunched over with their face half inside a screen
“Opt in” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 20 x 20 centimeters
miniature figures look up at a headless antique statue holding a round object
“Switch profile” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 12.5 x 12.5 centimeters
a miniature person sitting at the base of a figurative statue whose face is a QR code
“Show hidden” (2024), mixed media, 28 x 30 x 30 centimeters
a miniature person sitting at the base of a figurative statue who holds an explosion in one palm and an hourglass in the other
“Session timeout” (2024), mixed media, 25 x 14.5 x 14.5 centimeters
a large statue with long hair covering her face holds two wifi symbols in her hands while a small figure looks up from below
“Bad gateway” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 17.5 x 17.5 centimeters
a miniature person looking at a figurative statue whose face melds into a phone
“Use case” (2024), mixed media, 20 x 14 x 14 centimeters
miniature figures look up at a seated statue with a glitch for a head
“Temporary redirect” (2024), mixed media, 21 x 26 x 26 centimeters
a miniature person looking at three figurative statues with circular cutouts
“We value your privacy” (2024), mixed media, 28 x 17.5 x 17.5 centimeters
a miniature person sitting at the base of a figurative statue who is blindfolded with a spear in her hand and an explosion coming from her hand
“Rollback” (2024), mixed media / 20 x 16 x 16 centimeters

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44 days ago
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Back to beaches: The push to make Canada’s cities swimmable again

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As Canadian summers heat up, more urban residents are tapping the potential of their local rivers and lakes

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103 days ago
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E is for Ennui

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114 days ago
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tante
122 days ago
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Sesame Street went dark
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jlvanderzwan
123 days ago
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Ok but why the Kermit erasure?
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