Category: October Annual Residency
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Day twelve: 2024
6 minute read – Kay reflects reflects on a challenging start to their day, receives exciting news about hosting an open house at FLEET, and outlines a detailed, accessible schedule for the upcoming event on Granville Island, focused on inclusivity, radical silence, and creative engagement.
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Day five: 2024
5 minute read – Kay reflects on their ongoing work measuring the FLEET mobile trailer, navigating building codes, and addressing accessibility challenges, including their frustration with the lack of a ramp and railings.
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Day four: 2024 – in progress
Pending full post write up – for now, sighted peeps can take a gander at my early 360 captures. Non visual pals, I describe all content on instagram. This is work in progress and descriptions are coming with my next embed! Notes in progress: Matterport Tools: I have often gone into the space simply by…
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Day three: 2024
6 minute read – Kay reflects on their day at FLEET, contemplating the concept of an artist residency, discussing the pressure of opening events with a fellow artist, and capturing 360-degree shots while balancing work with personal reflections on their radical silence project.
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What is an “artist residency”?
4 minute video – Kay reflects on using the term “artist residency,” especially as they sign on social media using the initialized sign for home with the handshape R, and how that doesn’t accurately match how artist residencies – not living space – exist in Vancouver within contemporary artist culture.
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Day two: 2024
8 minute read – Kay reflects on the challenges of working in public during their residency, balancing focus, anxiety, and accessibility, while capturing a 360-degree scan of the space and contemplating their role as a guest on stolen land.
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Day One: 2024
6 minute read – Kay reflects on eight years of professional development and begins anew this year, focusing on accessibility, AR/VR tools, and public engagement during their annual October residency in a mobile artist studio on Granville Island.
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Day seven, 2023
2 minute read – Kay, on their 6th consecutive day of a streak, challenges themselves to expand their knowledge of Braille letters while also discovering new video editing tools in Adobe Premiere Pro that can assist with their unique needs.
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Day six, 2023
7 minute read (including generated descriptions). Content warning: Discussions on accessibility, minor frustrations with technology, and minor cursing. Vancouver – Today, I finished the first set of designs for an upcoming event I’ll host with two of my friends and collaborators in a series of tactile mark-making workshops. I designed these to maximize legibility and…
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Day five, 2023
7 minute read – Kay reflects on their changing relationship with writing and social media, emphasizing the value of self-worth beyond external validation and societal pressures to constantly produce.