Montreal Roof at 7, Réveillé

By Joshua Chalifour, 15 February 2009

Redless black morning chimney mount;
a two-dimensional relief
stamped on white-blue sky.
With ventilated hat,
in brick composure
the ragged outline of domestic industry
stands upright, dormant
while altocumulus float beyond,
sunrise igniting their pink.

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Aesthetic Transformation

By Joshua Chalifour, 8 November 2008

“Ugly! Eyesore! How could people think it was a good idea?” A giant slab of concrete in the middle of the outer edge of the park. For shame, city! This was no sculpture, I thought.
Why preserve and move the edge of a utilitarian-designed building to the park? If the rest of the building had been [...]

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