Peeling Back the Layers..

..the title of the current art exhibit by Kat Honey at our local Station Gallery. 

Going down to the gallery to have a look was my afternoon treat - an attempt to get away from never-ending annoying bureaucratic challenges that had been plaguing me, my sister and daughter all morning. It was a temporary get-away, but while I was there the exhibit held my focus and took my mind off the nonsense going on back at home! 

I love colour and collages and disparate things put together to create something new..in this case to send a message. For once, I found the exhibit description really helpful. Here is a small part of it. 

By deconstructing and reassembling ready-made images sourced from magazines, the artist shifts paradigms and stereotypes of femininity. Through this shift we begin interrogating our own stances and mores vis-á-vis gender constructs. The artist writes, "It is my hope that in transforming such images of feminine 'perfection' into something more raw, layered and nuanced, that you might find something more sustaining - less othering - that nevertheless gives you a blast of visual pleasures. Keep the passion, ditch the baggage." 


I  loved some of the face pieces and also the way the exhibit was set up  with a really interesting centrepiece. (extra) 

But then back to the real world and "Peeling Back the Layers" of bureaucracy at Hydro One, our power provider at the cottage. It's a long story, made longer by the fact that none of us were at the cottage. We had contacted a cottaging neighbour to go over to our cottage to look at the water pump that had stopped working when my sister was there last week. It all became complicated when this neighbour discovered that the power was off for our whole island! Nowhere else. Just on our island.  He knew why. He could see the breaker on the transformer had flipped - on top of a telephone pole. Of course he could not check the water pump until he had power.... and so started the endless saga of trying to report a power outage.and trust me, it took all day going back and forth with the power company.. And then to get it repaired? Everything is more complicated when on an island. That evening, after a day of texts and phone calls, a crew finally arrived to fix the simple problem. Tomorrow, at last, will begin the deconstruction of the water pump problem and hopefully there will be a quick fix to THAT!

The joys of cottaging.