Living in the city of Toronto, Canada, for some time, has allowed me to make certain connections with the familiar strangers I see every day. My project for Cracks in the Pavement is a bridge from my experiences with these people to the accidental audience that may come upon my work once it is installed.

I have chosen three sites that are particularly engaging to me in the city of Toronto to respond to with site-specific works. I am drawn to these sites because I have experienced some sort of exchange with a person in these locations.

The purpose of each piece is to allow others to have the same experiences with individuals that I have had in that space. I am spinning up a fiction of their lives to be gathered up by a viewer. The encounters I have had range from the strange to the mundane. For example, there is the janitor: I pass the same janitor every day working outside the Art Gallery of Ontario. We have very set schedules so we always pass each other at a particular time. We share a nod or a knowing glance but never converse. I want to weave this experience into a fictitious account of his life. The text I invent will blur borders for a viewer and create an evocative account of a life lived in that space.