Category Archives: Ottawa Culture

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landsdown

i have serious reservations about the development underway

but must admit to loving the current state of affairs

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i have been without a snap and shoot for some time

i feel better about the world with one

pARTbeatgal

(heARTbeatgal is in hiding)


human

people of ottawa

you  have NEVER disappointed me

chinatown re-mixed was a total blast!

deeply awesome

i made many wonderful connections and had fun with the over two hundred people who stopped to play my games

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my many thanks and congratulations to the people of re-mixed!  you are a stellar community putting together a smashing event!

i am now working on a way to display them for nuit blanche ottawa gatineau 2014

each one is special

together they are powerful

thank you all!

xxo

heARTbeatgal


chinatown remixed

early morning CKCU interview…

good for a laugh

i never know what is going to come flying out of my mouth!

 

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hope to see folks out tomorrow for chinatown re-mixed

i plan on all day fun!

excited

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mots

first batch received from local elementary school Francojeunesse!

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Merci à toutes et à tous!

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countdown is on

crossing your fingers and toes for a beautiful next saturday

my people are taking to the streets (just one street really) in the name of art and community!

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come out and play!

i want to know ‘what makes you human?’

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i will have a tent set up on the corner of Bronson and Sommerset, right next to a mailbox!

rain or shine i plan on FUN!

heARTbeatgal


nostalgia for business

nostalgia for business

 

‘nostalgia for business’   oil & collage   9″x12″

 

found rare time for some collage

a complicated colourful little homage to Landsdown

makes me smile about an otherwise unfortunate situation

i cannot possibly condone the goings on of the current developers

it will forever be sacred ground for me

i witnessed Miss Jackson’s (…cause i’m nasty) Rhythm Nation tour august 21, 1990

i also remember fondly sitting shotgun as a little girl while my dad did doughnuts in the large empty snow dusted parking lot some cold ottawa winter night in the ’80s

good times

…now i look forward to the fond memories  i am going to make at ‘whole foods’

heARTbeatgal

 


babes

out of the mouths of…

the first three of an onslaught of responses received from children

what joy!

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this first one either says ‘mom’ or it is a sun with two birds …and a whole bunch of other great stuff!

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my friends KEEP me human

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shoes! of course! yes!

horseshoes don’t count, and while quite possibly useful, those little dog booties i see about town are too undignified to acknowledge

 

my thanks to the kiddies who, without any surprise, find light and positivity

stay tuned…there are many more kids to weigh in

 

heARTbeatgal

 


hi there!

this is actually the very first ‘what makes you human?’ postcard to have arrived some weeks ago

it came close from home

 

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communication is not reserved for humans alone

 

…miscommunication

leaving a creative mark

recorded history

testing (…abusing perhaps these days) the boundaries of communication

having an opinion

taking a stand

this is human

 

and it all starts with a ‘hi there!’

heARTbeatgal

 


more words

 

two cards mysteriously appeared on my desk in recent days

i feel the angst of civil servitude

(that could just be me)

 

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i like very much that this answer is an equation

symbols. the writing of equations. that feels human

the content of this equation is intriguing

 

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this brings into question for me the emotional intelligence and self-awareness of animals other than humans

we think abstractly. we consume. we hate. we justify. we generate dogma.

that feels quite dark yet an undeniable human cycle

the other traits i feel we share with animals. we have a leg up with humour i suppose, though i once knew a hilarious sarcastic black lab-ish dog

 

i know for certain to soon expect some postcards from children

i am without doubt that children will provide the best answers

i cannot wait!

 

happy spring holiday to all!

 

heARTbeatgal