Writing
Essays and longer pieces. Slower than the field notes, and revised more than once.
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Essay9 min
Neon as memory: what the city keeps when a sign comes down
On the removal of a Granville Street sign, the photographs that outlived it, and how a city decides what counts as heritage.
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Essay7 min
Reading a storefront: language, ownership, and the bilingual street
What the order of languages on a sign says about who a shop expects to walk in, and how that has shifted on Fraser Street.
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Review6 min
Notes on a walking methodology
A response to recent work on walking as research, and what it leaves out when the walker has a camera.
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Essay8 min
The gate and the threshold
The Chinatown Gate as an object, a symbol, and a place people move through without looking up.
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Essay10 min
Public art, private commission
Who pays for murals in Vancouver, and whether it changes what they can say.