It’s been a long while since I had an update, and that stinks.

So here’s something that I wasn’t intending on posting, but I’ve decided to share because 1: Updates Rule, & 2: The work has just lasted SO LONG. Far exceeding my expectations.

Here’s the story- While cleaning up my shit (yet again) I found a bunch of perfectly good, high-quality, acid-free, archival, dark-magik resistant mat board that I had been hoarding for YEARS. This stuff has been hanging around for at least 4-5 years (NEVER AGING!) as I originally scrounged it up while I was still in University. I must have moved it to different homes at least 3 times! I figured that it was time to use it, but I didn’t have any frames, or materials with which to build frames lying around- so I decided that a flyer box was as good a frame as any, and here we are!

I put it in a box situated in a high foot-traffic area. I could have put it in a box that was off the beaten path- perhaps a derelict one that was stuffed full of garbage- and I would have known that it would run forever, or at least until somebody unusually involved messed with it or whenever the box was finally cleaned out… (would that ever happen?).

But I decided to put it in a high-traffic spot. It wouldn’t last as long, but It would get more eyes, and it would also act as a sort of experiment to see just how long it would last. My bet was a day or two. This is just outside one of the main entrances to the Ontario Government Buildings: a quartet of very large and major Government buildings here in Toronto. It is chock’a'block full of govie-types with good jobs, situated right downtown, and must see thousands of people walk pass daily.

I put this in over a Month ago, and it’s still there. I installed it on Feb 5th. In the first photo, you can see a little bit of the snow from our wimpy Toronto winter that just ended- one of the driest and warmest in recent records. You can also see that the other flyer boxes are headlining “Black History Month” and “Chinese New Year”. The second photo was taken just yesterday.

I really thought, that of all their boxes on our cities streets, EYE would maintain this one.

I suppose that you can never be too sure with these junky things which ones are actually maintained.