The Sky is Falling

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Jan 17

–

Jan 26 2020

exhibition in-person

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Admission

Free

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Knife Fork Book, Mezzanine, Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street

Hours

Jan 17Fri 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 18Sat 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 19Sun 12:00pm – 6:00pm

Jan 20Mon Closed

Jan 21Tue 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 22Wed 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 23Thu 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 24Fri 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 25Sat 11:00am – 7:00pm

Jan 26Sun 12:00pm – 6:00pm

Disciplines

Visual artist, designer and poet Jessica Hiemstra creates an abstracted paper sky on the ceiling of Toronto’s only all-poetry bookstore, Knife Fork Book. Using watercolour paper, thread and washes of Genzäh Handmade Watercolours 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.