Unfortunately, I’m missing the artists’ talk at the Spectra 2023 exhibition at Artscape Youngplace. I wrote this to be read out in my absence. When I deliberately started photographing garbage back in 2006, I was working in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In most respects, Tanzanian cities are extremely chaotic, Read more…
The first-ever Toronto Island Art Crawl was held in June 2021, partly to celebrate the construction of the many small galleries in front of island artists’ houses. I wanted to make something special and unusual for it, so I took some photos of the inside and outside of my house, Read more…
I started this in childhood, running outside, bare feet on the grass. The feeling is much more intense as I age, especially since having cancer 20 years ago – wow, I say, another day to enjoy, so precious! I recently read Anne Carson’s narrative poem “Autobiography of Red”. Carson’s work Read more…
If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? (Bruce Cockburn, 1989, from Big Circumstance album)If an image is only viewed online, is it really seen? (Me, 2021) Yet again the pandemic and the inadequate government response to the pandemic have forced the Visible and Invisible Cities exhibition at Read more…
Portrait view vs landscape view, which is more pleasing? For many images, it’s obvious which side is up, but recently my assumptions about my own view were challenged by an artist friend…
I haven’t been writing any blog posts for a few weeks now, but I have been working. I’ve been out with the camera shooting, sometimes at night. Editing for my front yard tiny gallery and for submission to various exhibitions. Reading things like Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being to seek Read more…
A few years ago, a group exhibition that I regularly participate in posed the theme of “Essential Ingredient” and I prepared a collage from two images: a grainy photo of earthquake damage in Turkey in 1999, and a digital image of some new manufactured housing in USA in 2011 as Read more…
Slow shutter speeds can capture many things photographically. Fast movement is obvious with a shutter speed of more than half a second, and these tree branches were really moving. exposure was F11.0 at 1/4 second.
Public interest in Ontario can sometimes be served by the use of a mechanism called a Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO), which bypasses municipal rezoning processes and lengthy community consultation in order to fast-track important initiatives such as affordable housing development. In general I support it if it’s used in a Read more…
Wonder why this 2018 piece is called “Waiting for Pink Umbrella”? Across the road from this site is Sugar Beach, an urban park featuring permanent pink beach umbrellas and muskoka chairs in sand overlooking the water. 130 QQE has its own pink umbrellas in a small parkette to the west Read more…
There’s still 10 weeks until spring, alas. Send seasonal greeting cards this winter to spread the light! Start today, write one card per week until spring. There is nothing better than getting a card in the mail. Write to me at eliza_moore@yahoo.com for ordering information Set of 10 different cards: Read more…
In May 2019 I had the wonderful opportunity to travel across Canada by train with my friend Alison, who had won tickets in a VIA Rail contest. Lots of photographs were taken, social media posts were written, and I remember the trip as a truly magical experience. It was not Read more…
The new development in Toronto’s waterfront along Queens Quay between Yonge Street and Parliament Street is varied in form and purpose. But is it too dense? Skycloud thinks so …
Winter solstice is always a good time to review the year just past, and reflect on the good and the not-so-good. I also find it a good time to look through past image files, to get some inspiration about what to work on next. It also helps me produce some Read more…
Inspired by some of my artist neighbours on Toronto Island, I had Chris Foster build this mini gallery for my front yard. My intention is to change the artwork every week, so come and check it out at 11 Fifth Street.
Thought you would be amused about the inspiration for my latest motorcycle trip. As you know, I had planned to circumnavigate Lake Michigan last year, then wimped out (too far, too urban, not enough time/money), and now the border is closed. Here’s the story: “Lake Michigan had always been envious Read more…
Reflections on my recent piece called “After the Haircut”. Unconscious channeling of Vermeer? Was I Vermeer in a previous life? Or is this just life imitating art?
Remote Gallery Group show — Eliza Moore, Atia Pokorny, Janne Reuss Richmond Street, Toronto, Canada Two weeks in September? or not? Moore, Pokorny and Reuss are all members of Gallery 44 and met a few years ago while working together on the Spectra exhibitions in the Contact Photography Festival. They Read more…
NEW DATES FOR GALLERY 44 MEMBERS EXHIBITIONS Gallery 44 members form an ad hoc group called Spectra every year to exhibit in the Contact Photography Festival. Normally the festival happens in May. This year is not normal due to the coronavirus and Covid19 pandemic. Spectra exhibitions have been postponed until Read more…