How do you work alongside a lover while still respecting their fundamental difference and ultimate opacity? How do you come together while also staying apart?
Jon Davies
Jon Davies is a curator, writer and art historian from Montreal with a PhD in Art History from Stanford University. He was the 2024–25 General Idea Fellow at the National Gallery of Canada and is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at Carleton University, Ottawa.
In his novel of the same name, science fiction author William Gibson once described pattern recognition as a “gift and a trap,” which is a generous way of saying we search for meaning even when it may or may not exist.
