June 2026

Reading

The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item - Basil Linder, Vera Roggli & Eva Wolf

My favourite research-creation projects hone in on a single hyper-specific, quotidian object and dissect it from political, sociological, and material angles: in this case, the tea towel. this anthology shows how loaded the humble kitchen cloth is bound up with unpaid care work, colonialism, and equality, while sliding between museum-shop design object and cheap mass-produced good.

Spike Magazine - Everything’s Computer

Had been on the hunt for this for ages since finding out that Ann Hirsch and Sophie Publig have work in there, this issue is curated around the premise that there's no longer a meaningful line between 'real life' and life online.

The Pyromaniac Images: Theory-Fiction of Generative AI - Pierre Cassou-Noguès & Gwenola Wagon

Another wonderful release from Set Margins. A philosopher and an artist team up to write short speculative stories about generative AI, using fiction to ask what it means that every AI image burns real energy, so our endless appetite for generated pictures is a kind of fire or an addiction the authors call "pyropictomania”

Hello Chaos, A Love Story - Charlie Engman

This short book recasts Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse as estranged lovers. acute, mute kitty chasing mickey's attention in vain. through their cat-and-mouse longing and a dense mix of original and found images, engman picks at the horny, horrible vulnerability of looking and being perceived.

Silicity Protocols - 404

This publication is self described as “navigating the liminal spaces between media, culture, mysticism, and technology.” This issue focuses specifically on 404 errors, namely how ‘ the error code not as a technical fault but as a cultural figure: the link rot, the place, the map which refuse to reach.’

Wearing

This divine moves hat by KAP that I got at Voo Store in Berlin, designed by Ehsan Morshed focusing the emergent meaning arising from collaging found tabloids.

I went against my own personal rule of not buying widely available perfumes while traveling to buy this. I sampled it too many times in a few days and fell in love with the yuzu + fig combo which is fresh but sexy. I had sampled it too many times in my first few days in london that I had already developed an association with it.

Picked this up in up in Good Hood in Shoreditch.

My feet were killing me walking 20k+ steps a day in Berlin, so I picked these up out of desperation at Muji. unfortunately it had the inverse effect and gave me gnarly blisters, but I think once I break them in they will be a staple.

Bought this for Tito for an anniversary gift, both hotels I’ve stayed in on my trip have had this as the bathroom products and it makes me miss home.

Admiring

extremely haunting paintings by Pol Taburet that I originally saw at the Boros Collection

Qing Fibre was extremely kind to invite me to their studio while I was in London and let me live out a ‘criterion closet’ moment at their warehouse. Suri Baby Alpaca has been extremely coveted for me since it’s hard to find the colorways I love in Canada, so I grabbed a few skeins while I was there.

this tape by Baychimo that pays homage to early 90’s drum n bass and garage from playstation games that I picked up at OYE records in Berlin

I got a copy of Dictionary of the Illegible by Laurenz Brunner, I especially love something about miffy filling a journal with marks only she could read feels like the truest picture of keeping a diary, the writing was never for anyone, not even for language.

also this page from Hello Chaos...just read it

saw the Mark Leckey retrospective at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin and it left me speechless. over fifty works spanning twenty-five years (video, sound installations, sculpture) all exploring rave culture, class, and how technology shapes memory. one of the best artist retrospectives i've ever seen.

The Music is Black at V&A East floored me. it treats artifacts of black british music as an archaeology starting with slave trade documents and charters from the 1600s, then layer by layer showing how that history flows all the way into jungle and grime. the location-responsive audio in your headset was incredible, and by the final room people were literally dancing together.

Camera Roll

cop copine shirt that i found that fits like a glove at a thrift store in London

pulling up to london at about 7am with a lovely cab driver who was singing the praises of how much he loves halifax/canadian east coast

beautiful objects i found at APOC store in london

beautifully arranged glassware at a boutique I forget the name of

waiting eagerly for the tour at boros collection

heart shaped blocks at an exhibition at hamburger banhof

Tracey Emin's bed at the Tate. i've only ever known it flat and by a few angles reproduced in art history books and papers. standing beside it is something else entirely. exquisitely intimate, like being let into a room you were never meant to see. a bed that was truly lived in that still holds the shape of the body.

what i wore to berghain (all black canadian tuxedo) (I got in)

a sign that caught my attention in charlottenburg