{"id":72,"date":"2025-06-28T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:35:48","slug":"like-the-seams-of-a-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Like the Seams of a Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f56a869c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dawson-Artspace-Poster-InstaSize-Version2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dawson-Artspace-Poster-InstaSize-Version2.png 1000w, https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dawson-Artspace-Poster-InstaSize-Version2-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dawson-Artspace-Poster-InstaSize-Version2-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dawson-Artspace-Poster-InstaSize-Version2-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Mama, In Your Absence<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>June 5th &#8211; 21st, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening Reception<\/strong>: June 6th, 2025, 6-9 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Like the Seams of a Coat<\/strong>&nbsp;investigates the role landscape photography played in the processes of nation building and the construction of a Canadian visual identity firmly rooted in the myth of superabundance. Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) was a Montreal-based photographer who documented transnational railway projects in the years after confederation, tasked with making images of major benchmarks in their expansion across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Growing alongside a young nation, photography\u2019s development as a commercial, social, and representational tool determined how Canada was seen, and by presenting scenes as natural and given, nineteenth century landscape images \u201cmask[ed] how labour binds human and nonhuman nature.\u201d&nbsp;Following in Henderson\u2019s footsteps, my images work against idealized representations of land seen in commercial photography at the time, to identify sites of human intervention in nature, the residual effects of resource extraction industries, and&nbsp;traces&nbsp;of colonial violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><strong><em>Dawson Cox<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 5th &#8211; 21st<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_folder":[17],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-programs-2025","category-6","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artspace.thecreativeschool.torontomu.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}