INVIEW: bedtime stories and other journies

cardboard, acrylic paint, recycled mixed fabric, japanese paper scraps (quilt)

Superior bookkeeping, 2025 (temporary)

a temporary, nuit blanche window installation supported by “The danny” bia and East End arts, with a focus on recycled materials

“Bedtime Stories and Other Journeys”  transforms the act of a grandparent sharing a folktale with their grandchildren into a living diorama. Tonight, the grandparent tells a Mid-Autumn Festival story, of Chang-E, who is separated from her husband Hou-Yi when she is threatened by bandits and takes an elixir that floats her to the moon. Each child wears a makeshift rabbit headband and eats moon cake. The shadow puppet creatures that come to life dance around them in the room, like a rabbit jumping from the moon to meet Chang-E as she arrives and clouds drifting around them.

Inspired by the mom and pop shops of the Danforth, this piece represents the magic of oral storytelling between neighbours, patrons, guests and friends. Like a bedtime story, it becomes a visual metaphor for communication, belonging, and the magic of shared cultural memory.