Sandy Plotnikoff humorously highlights fashion that functions as a way to blend in or stand out; he calls it urban camouflage. In a recently developed series of photographs he positions himself near something the same colour as his hooded sweatshirt, thus when the figure and ground become temporarily connected he creates an event captured on camera. Plotnikoff describes his process,

“Tina (the photographer) and I set out on our bikes looking for locations to match the hoodies. When we come across a good spot or situation I dig out the proper colour (from my biketrailer filled with hoodies), put it on, take a picture, and continue on to the next spot. There is a lot to match with: cars, plants, animals, people, buildings, fire hydrants and whatever else is around. I’ve been collecting sweatshirts from thriftstores for three years, so my hoodie palette spans over sixty colours.”

Plotnikoff thanks photographer Christina Felderhof for her assistance in the project. As an extension of the series, he has loaned out each of his hoodies for the duration of this show – The Rainbow Hoodie Residency Program encourages participants to incorporate the sweatshirts into their daily wardrobe or wear them on special occasions, such as the opening reception.

For the past couple of years Joe McKay has been taking photographs of abandoned strollers that he finds on the street. His collection has grown to well over one hundred, most found in New York and Toronto. He observes,

“Despite the transitory nature of the strollers, each one carries a certain aura. The strollers became almost ‘haunted’ sites for me, and i treat each stroller with reverence. Consequentially, I never touch or alter a stroller in any way. They are monuments to not only a moment in time (a wheel breaks on the way home from the grocery store) but to the act of growing up itself, the abandoned stroller as urban cocoon. ”

McKay has chosen to exhibit one hundred of the stroller snapshots in a book work. He will also exhibit cranky kinetic sculptures including Nothing Lasts Forever, a toy airplane that flies in a circle until the battery wears out, then just hangs. The plane is trailing a banner which reads NOTHING LASTS FOREVER.