Sky Watch: Vol. 4, No. 2, "Dying Light"

Office sunset

Wynford Drive and Garamond Court, looking west | Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5:04 p.m.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

—Dylan Thomas, from “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”


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Sky Watch: Vol. 4, No. 1, "Winter Blue"

Downtown Toronto from Riverdale Park East, at 28 degrees below zero

Riverdale Park East | Friday, January 16, 2009, 5:23 p.m.

Orange reached up, dug its nails into the flat body of the sky, and hung on for dear life. With Blue rising up to swallow it whole, Orange resisted, kicked Blue back down to the snow-covered ground, and shook the last ...
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Lake Watch Revisited, #1

Frozen blue

GO train, Rouge Hill | Saturday, January 17, 2009, 11:48 a.m. Not just still life. Frozen life. Hues of white, slate, cornflower, olive, and saffron thrown onto the unfinished canvas wait for the thaw so they can be spread around, brushstroked into corners and to the edges, daubed into rolling waves and drifting clouds. But right now nothing moves. ...
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