“Holes Holding Whole; IdleTime” is a collaborative project by Ella Dawn McGeough, Erica Stocking, and Amanda Boulos that takes a surreal approach to dreaming and idle time. Moving through a nonlinear, dreamlike spiral of text and image, the work reimagines sleep not as a void, but as a portal to “weird wanderings” and “strange affinities.”
Amanda Boulos
Amanda Boulos engages with fragmented oral national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada to explore how those histories can morph into a future Palestinian diaspora. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at OCAD University, a member of the plumb and programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
Several of the works in this issue consider how the domestic is shaped not only by private life but also by global currents, family histories, and consumer goods, nudging at the conditions that shape how we live, where we live, and with whom we choose to share our lives.