Folio Issue 8

Folio Staff Editors Claire Bourgeois Erin Spangler Jonathan Aird Paula Alaszkiewicz Aimée Bell-Pasht Elle Bourgeois Natalie Della Valle Jordan Deutsch Gabriela Gilmour Galen Macdonald Vincent Marquis Clara Puton Pooja Sen Contact foliomag@gmail.com foliomagazine.ca

About Folio is a student-run visual art and design magazine that acts as an ongoing archive of McGill’s artistic community by providing a venue for student artists to showcase their work. It is published biannually.

Cover: Jeremy Keyzer Facing page: Juliette Cook All contents © the respective artists.

Opinions expressed in Folio are not necessarily those of McGill University.

folio magazine : Issue 8 — Fall 2012 ­ Contents Tessellation #3 Carolyn Bailey Falling Up Hannah Tolkin st30 sn31 Sarah Boo lecture study 1 and 2 Carlyn Hopkins

Let X=X Joseph Henry Grace Brooks The Furlongs Tamara Augusten

Calvin Klein Sarah Cook Yellow Sarah, 2012 Margit on a Visit Home, 2012 Catherine Polcz ‘jellyfish babies’ Thomas Pringle

CAROLYN BAILEY Tessellation #3

HANNAH TOLKIN Falling Up

SARAH BOO st30

sn31

CARLYN HOPKINS lecture study 1 and 2

immmm soooooooooooooooooooooo dumb and retarded

You're gonna burn out at

this rate and recede, a technosocial parabola

LET X = X !!!!

Think about all the time people struggle to create formulas to describe our universe, only to have them crumble when something new is observed. It's like coming up with a logical way to explain the earth's rotation... and then realizing the sun exists. I know what I know because I count it out, he said. Good morning sunshine! I think that joseph is pretending to be me in this paragraph ya kno what i mean look at the next paragraph (3 6 9 9 2 1 2 5 7 0 3 6 9 9). Terminal-ID: 56516134. I know what I know because I deal with it, he said. By counting it out I asked? I’m learning how to not equate the numbers (but I’m in the lead with 4>3), but he said, he’s glad he knows he can fuck someone totally repulsive and LAST. MWST 417,00 MwST. 7 % 30,00, MwST. 19 %. I could only handle so much, there was a limit, it was about 10 MINUTES. HEY

or you can just talk to me pillow talk me i mean i will be repeating that essay 2 u but in Presence

for two kings Ok.. Lets do this ,, You please be safe , clean, disease free, and looking for this morning. No B/S or losers please. Please reply with Stats, Ethnic background, what you are into / looking for . Pics would be great also.. Send and I will return I am open to anything safe, sane , and that does not involve any scat , urine etc. Prefer White guys, Bi / MM / STR8 +++,

Me, 32, white, 5'9, 165, br/br, 31w, hairy. 6', white, 175, in shape, vgl, and horny for a discreet buddy Cut ++, Hairy ++++ How about you ?

I got pics, ready here, looking for now!!!

I just got out of a very tough complicated relationship with an older man who used me for sex from a frustrated old man named Mathieu 70 yo man who can't get sex because of his physical handicap old bag no life , mess in the head , he got no friends .

Ilived with him I had to cater to his needs and even though I am shameful I act like a kid when I am 27 yo The manipulation and being mistreated got to me that I couldn t do it anymore cause I had no money to pay the rent I am now on my own putting Mathieu behind me I love sex with people my age and to make friends my own age I am looking for simple uncomplicated fun for now as a possible relationship can be possible if the right person comes along I am 5 feet 9 140 lbs I love barefeet I am looking for black guys & latino guys open to all races and if anyone has a foot fetish like myself that would like to share & explore each other's feet why not? anyone take math142a and want to help me out?

JOSEPH HENRY GRACE BROOKS Let X=X

Everyone I’m attracted to is a variation on a theme.

Modifications on an origin.

Start with the normal curve and move out.

Somewhere between m + 2s and m - 2s is the kind of thrill from a calculated text message, getting felt up by binary code

HE CAME ON PRETTY STRONG.. IT WAS KIND OF AWKWARD TO BE HONEST (sometimes 100101001 brings the wrong émotion to the wrong person)

I think of the process of continuation as the same process as what I ’m doing. Take a little stretch of answer and then build the next tau minutes on it.

i hate caring about everything more than everyone else cares about them

Given the simple simple variables: how much power i have

how much power they have how smart do i think they are how smart do they think i am

Then it is easy to construct a family of related solutions

maximized

. The density flow is firmly

within the region of ‘heartbreaker’.

I am listening to the people talking in the garden outside my window, and someone I want to fuck has said ‘this is so fucked up’ in a way that makes me know that he cares.

MAYA INGLIS Untitled (Ode to The Blue Hands)

This is an unpaid, full-time internship position. Applicants must commit to working five days per week, usually Wednesday through Sunday, and should possess an interest This is an unpaid, full-time internship position. Applicants must commit to working five days per week, usually Wednesday through Sunday, and should possess an interest This is an unpaid, full-time internship position.

Applicants must commit to working five days per week, usually Wednesday through Sunday, and should possess an interest in inequality and development.

Monday, July 9th: 9 am rally at Liberty Plaza, 9:30 am march down Wall Street.

Monday, July 9th: 9 am rally at Liberty Plaza, 9:30 am march down Wall Street.

THE LIMIT OF MY hate IS positive. imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever... imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever... imagining you in nelson was the funniest/saddest shit ever...

Fuck I’m showing my age.

TAMARA AUGUSTEN The Furlongs

SARAH COOK Calvin Klein

CATHERINE POLCZ Yellow Sarah, 2012 and Margit on a Visit Home, 2012

THOMAS PRINGLE ‘jellyfish babies’

folio contributors JEREMY KEYZER studies urban systems, art history, and GIS. His Tap OK to confirm you are 17 or older portrait is inspired by the representation of identity and the relationship between sexuality and space. He loves trains, gardening, and cities. His approach to art making is temperamental.

JULIETTE COOK turns to biology, nature and geometry to inspire her work. Juliette is constantly looking to her surroundings, whether it be other art, the environment at large or microscopic body tissues and plants cells.

Through her work, she hopes to enlarge these microscopic interactions into imaginary landscapes, free from depth and space. Her focus is to capture the unspoiled beauty of nature, holding elements in a states of suspension.

Her work is full of juxtapositions: intuitive yet planned, free yet controlled, open to interpretation yet holding a story. When not producing art as a coping mechanism for the stresses of day to day life, Juliette is a student in International Development and Economics.

CAROLYN BAILEY is an honors cultural studies student.

Her art, which she describes as geometric rorschach nightmares, is inspired by symmetry, movement and chaos. She used lead on Mylar plastic sheet to construct Tesselllation #3.

HANNAH TOLKIN’s ethereal photographs showcase those happiest and heartfelt moments which she feels cannot be accurately put into words. Her inspirations are drawn from the locations, urban environments, people and landscapes which surround her. Hannah often waits extended periods of time to develop her film as she finds joy in rediscovering the memories which her film captures.

SARAH BOO lives in dream spaces that are much too familiar. A second year engineering student, Sarah is inspired by “anxiety and shit”. Her artwork is an aesthetic exploration of the invisible points of intensity in between her frequent sleep paralysis episodes. In her eyes, her work is “tinny.”

CARLYN HOPKINS finds the process of art-making therapeutic, tactile and relational. Born into a family of artists, drawing has always come naturally to her and brings her to a place of serenity. She loves to doodle in idle moments and is interested in medical illustration, an art form that allows her to merge her passions for science and fine arts. She calls her hair pieces Lecture Study 1 and 2, “wonderfully repetitive!”

JOSEPH HENRY and GRACE BROOKS work together to produce spiteful, caring, vulnerable, attached, and also ‘hard’ work: “vulnerable like a gall, like a gall with a big bug in it.” Featured in this issue are just four pages from Let X=X, a work Joseph and Grace ideally see in portable document format or printed in a zine. You can view the complete work here: bit.ly/Y7sgyG. Advertisements, ambivalence, missionaries, Outlook Web, people who like salads with quinoa in them and probably have dogs, caps lock, people who would never have dogs or salads with quinoa, and the feeling of being minimally rebellious are all critical influences of their work. Joseph, a joint honors student in art history and German studies, sees his artistic inclinations and life as a McGill student existing in opposition, the McGill Daily comments section being a crucial site for inspiration. Grace, a student of physiology and physics, turns to art making as an alternative to her disappointment from consumption of other media, without which she wouldn’t know how to exist.

TAMARA AUGUSTEN fills up mini Moleskines and the edges of notebooks with doodles. Currently in her final semester of East Asian studies and economics, Tamara’s mass drawing sprees often occur without purpose as forms of distraction or to avoid filling in grad school applications. Her work is inspired by cityscapes, organisms inhabiting them, and relationship dynamics.

SARAH COOK describes her geometric paint-on-paper pieces as “the kind of thing you can make in a couple of minutes while watching a movie”. She maintains that McGill has helped bring out the artist in her, because as a “reluctant” fourth-year international development student, most of her pieces are the fruition of dull lectures.

CATHERINE POLCZ views art making as a housekeeping necessity. After her undergraduate degree, her creative mind had a lot of catching up to do. Now pursuing a Masters degree in plant science, she paints early in the morning or late at night while listening to podcasts and is inspired art and fiction induced mini-revelations. Her work addresses the mysterious ability of portraiture as a means of communication. “We look at people all the time, so what is it to look at an impression of a person?”

THOMAS PRINGLE makes malnourished and parasitic artwork. He is inspired by difference, machines, perception, organs, animals, ticks, mayflies, jellyfish, country rats and city rats. After time at film school and a 35mm film project gone wrong, Thomas now focuses on “minor quotidian photography.” His photography is an ongoing experiment in learning the qualities of light.

Thomas is a Masters student in cultural studies.

Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts Council, the Students’ Society of McGill University, and the Dean of Arts Development Fund for their generous support.