art for pedestrians

While we were in Toronto everyone kept asking us what we were doing in Toronto, which seemed like a funny question. We quickly realized that we weren’t doing in Toronto was going to galleries. We didn’t make it to a single one. Everyone kept asking us if we’d we seen the new addition to the ROM yet. Nope, we didn’t see that either. We did see lots of art though.



On Friday we had a studio visit with Toronto-based electronic artist Sandor Ajzenstat. Sandor let us play with several of his machines, none of which we broke, and then he showed us their insides, and then he made us lunch. What a great way to see art. Galleries hardly ever serve lunch. Here’s an article about one of the works we dined with, the Convergence Machine.

Besides this studio visit, we amused ourselves in quite pedestrian ways. We walked around a lot. And took pictures of pleasing things. We made two separate trips to Little India to buy bangles, acquiring seven-dozen in total. That’s eighty-four bangles! Four-dozen we gave away. The rest were for keeps.



We bought three kinds of tea in a shop in Kensington Market with an ocean-blue ceiling adorned with dozens of globes of the world. The idea being, I guess, that tea comes from all over the world. Both the globes and the teas pleased us very much.



Maybe next time we’ll get to the galleries. Maybe next time we’ll see the new addition to the ROM. We’re certainly not opposed to the idea. Just distracted. There are so many interesting things to see along the way to art.
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