#bedtime tale

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Rae and his Family Legacy Trunk

Rae and his Family Legacy Trunk

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The Boy Who Cried "Wolf"

The Boy Who Cried “Wolf”

This is one of Aesop’s most famous fable. It’s old but not rusty. As you read through note that the fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.

There was once a shepherd boy who kept his flock at a little distance from the village. Once he thought he would play a trick on the villagers and have some fun at their expense. So he ran toward the village crying out,…

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VERA FRENKEL - THE BLUE TRAIN (2012)

in my dream, the train is blue...

http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/ric/verafrenkel/TheBlueTrain.mp3

Vera Frenkel recreates the narratives of 32 passengers who might have been on a 1939 train to Paris carrying the artist's mother, her infant daughter, and an unexpected group of German troops, as they head for safety in the U.K.

Two large monitors present the pre-war journey in counterpoint with the post-war account excerpted from a long letter by Black Star photographer Werner Wolff, describing what he found on his return to Germany in 1945. The two journeys, serving as parentheses to World War II, allow the viewer to sense what lay between. (Ryerson Image Centre)

Multi-channel video, photo, and text installation.

"was it my mother's modest good looks that saved us? ... was her reluctance to speak seen simply as shyness?"

"the journey can be neither forgotten nor confirmed. it can only be evoked. its one witness, the nightly tale, the mother’s voice conjuring up the hiss of steam..."

surely, the train was blue, it must have been...

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Ghastly snacks...

Up the stairs and off to sleep

Before the creatures hear you peep

  For in the darkness they will come

And take your fingers toes and thumbs

  Unless to bed you make with haste

You’ll end up stomped & squished to paste

  To spread upon their ghastly snacks

Of bones and eyes and childrens backs

  So sleep you safe inside your bed

And hold on tight your little head

  So full of dreams and hopes to come

Just pray you will keep both your thumbs