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As I rode through TrinityBellwood's Park on my way to work on Friday, I couldn't help noticing that Susan MacKay's sculpture (featured in an article by Sheila Heti in issue #1 of
Spacing*) was
on fire. Smoke was billowing out of the multi-coloured tree stump, and so was water, as the fire guys had rammed a spewing hose up inside the art. By the time I returned with my camera the fire was out, leaving a hacked-up base and a window into a world of insect misery. Injured grubs the diameter of my thumb writhed and wriggled in agony while gigantic orange beetles (
not the dreaded Asian Longhorn Beetle, as the the Parks and Rec. dudes were quick to ascertain) staggered around on the raw, exposed surface of the rotten wood.
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Issue #2 of Spacing is out now and it looks fabulous. Will make a better post when I've read it carefully. For now let me say the design is way better than last time, and the cover is GR-8. I am loving the slogan:
EVERYONE IS A PEDESTRIAN
it took us millions of years to learn how to walk and only 100 to forget
