After visiting 47 countries around the world and over 300 cities, we decided to collect selected photos taken
over the period of 51 years and start creating a photo book. It will be called Omen Urbis. What does it mean?
The word “psychogeography” is a combination of Psychology and Geography. A mental reaction (psychology)
to a particular space (geography) leads towards interaction: mental and physical, internal and external.
The working title, “Omen Urbis”, is one of the central aspects of psychogeography,
freely translated from Latin as “Urban Symbols“ or “Advent of Urban Change”.
For this online occasion, we will be using only photos taken this year.
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Let's split this competition in the unrecognizable sport, with me in the golden cut,
a mathematical ratio that creates an aesthetically pleasing result.
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The images are taken as “reflexivity journals” for observational walks.
That is quite obvious in this reflection in the glass panel in the background.
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To be observational enthusiast you also need to be optimist. Hoping to found a urban secrets.
Choose Hope and be happy!.
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Psychogeography and Omen Urbis are “walking on a very narrow path between
art andscience”. The intention of this project is to have artistic freedom
in interpreting the facts and to perceive things unseen before.
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What are Omen Urbis?
I am describing them as “scenes usually unrecognized as a significant ones in the life of the city”.
They are just observed during the walks in an instant and recorded as a photos.
Let's have some fun, look down, look up...
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This is PARADISE, for him or for us; it should be for all of us together.
As Marcel Proust states, “The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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Being at the top doesn’t mean that you are the most important, even in Canada.
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Is the water more pleasant, or should I come inside and enjoy an art experience at Aga Khan Museum?
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We are all working hard, and the results will be available soon.
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Thank you, thank you, for the fabulous surprise!
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Megacities, like Toronto, tend to concentrate the best and the worst,
globally connected and locally disconnected, physically and socially.
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The Toronto Music Garden is one of the city's most enchanted locations. The park design is inspired
by Bach's First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello, with each dance movement within the suite
corresponding to a different section of the garden.
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Ireland Park commemorates the Irish Famine migrants who arrived on Toronto’s shores between 1846 and 1849.
Rowan Gillespie’s “Departure” series of famine sculptures in Dublin was starting point. The seven sculptures that stand on the dockside in Dublin
are reduced by Rowan to five on the Toronto waterfront.
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For us, contemporary psychogeographers, the drift is purposeful; it can reveal the city’s underlying structure.
The psychogeographer knows that the metropolis cannot be recorded;
it can only be carefully observed and remade.
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All of you are invited, of course, if you have a nice haircut.
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That is an artistic experiment. Left and right too.
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Biidaasige Park (meaning “sunlight shining toward us” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin)
is a sweeping green-space that lines the new mouth of the Don River. This is the largest park
to open in Toronto in a generation and the first public space
to open on Ookwemin Minising.
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Inukshuk is a type of stone landmark used by Inuit, and other peoples of the North American Arctic.
It means “in the likeness of a human", in this case me, trying to push aside
dangerous modern structures, overshadowing it.
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Circles. Everywhere, leftover from the cut tree, favourite hiding space for my granddaughter,
or impressive art object
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We can all blossom [artist against racism]. Fight for Palestine. We are taking our culture back.
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Glowing Berzy Park, we call it dog's park having in mind attractive fountain..
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Corner of Church Street and King Street + two St. James Cathedral Churches??
As Marcel Proust states:
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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Corner of Market Street and King Street.
It goes on and on. I am not looking for the next Omen Urbis, they are appearing on their own,
the only thing you need to do, is to look SIDEWAYS! Psychogeography experience is quite valuable tool in that process.
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You become the thing they feared the most. A artist! Farewell Toronto!
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Dennis Oppenheim (1938 – 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist,
earth artist, sculptor and photographer. His Still Dancing, 20m tall sculpture
or simple decorated bicycle probably intended not to be such impressive, are still standing out.
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Being young is not preventing you to be very very creative. Then you grow, become more thoughtful and here it is.
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Street art can even be even a part of art festival!
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Multicultural city contains various artistic expressions, Hindu artworks, indigenous tradition for good wishes,
and fabulous Latino American food.
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Common language here is material used.
01. Bronze sculpture of St. Michael, posted in one corner of this garden, in Nicholson Lane,
is created by famous French artist Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910).
02. Copy of the traditional Roman bust, or
03. Sun Dial, created in1972, pointing to the indigenous direction.
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, but it is 10am? Sorry we are closed.
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In 1950 Hewetson Clark started collected architectural elements from
demolished buildings in Toronto and displaying them in the Guild Gardens in Toronto.
Robert Holmes, painter of Canadian Mild Flowers, created by John Byers, resident Guild Sculptor,
in the middle, is making them less scary.
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I love them all!
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Once a year we have sun in this direction at this time, this exciting.
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Cities should be places where all human rights and fundamental liberties are realized
and where the dignity and collective well-being of all persons is assured under conditions
of equality, equitability and justice with full fulfillment of the social responsibility of the habitat.
Everyone has the right to find in the cities the conditions necessary for his or her political, economic, cultural, social,
and ecological realization while assuming the associated duties of solidarity.
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Few spreads for the upcoming book are already done, including accompanying drawings
that I am calling reminders to the visited space.
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