Traces
21 May – 27 June, 2026
Cooper Cole, Toronto
What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself.
How to lift traces to lines, to tangibility full of traces that have been erased by regimes of governance or regimes of power?
So, where I find myself located as trace, trace becomes vocabulary.
An edited trace from Brand, Dionne. "Pressure on Verbal Matter: Dionne Brand and the Making of Language". Interview by Robert Enright. Border Crossings Magazine, November 2020.
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Still waters weeping, 2026
Pana da costa, five monkey pod wood stools, freshwater, and hand-dyed hibiscus
74 × 33 × 26 cm
Pana da costa, five monkey pod wood stools, freshwater, and hand-dyed hibiscus
74 × 33 × 26 cm
To lines, to tangibility, 2024
Thermoplastic coated steel
32 × 43 × 32 cm
Thermoplastic coated steel
32 × 43 × 32 cm
Trading Winds, 2026
Concrete and glass
15 × 27 × 20 cm
Concrete and glass
15 × 27 × 20 cm
Tri vocabulary, 2026
Monotype on hardwood pulp paper, sapele mahogany, and glass
43.25 × 33 × 4.5 cm
Monotype on hardwood pulp paper, sapele mahogany, and glass
43.25 × 33 × 4.5 cm
A Sea Shanty, 2026
Wooden cabinet and Wray & Nephew white overproof rum
131.5 × 165 × 30.5 cm
Wooden cabinet and Wray & Nephew white overproof rum
131.5 × 165 × 30.5 cm
Yoked, 2026
Sapele mahogany and iron
Dimensions variable
Sapele mahogany and iron
Dimensions variable
Photography: Cooper Cole Gallery