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My dirty laundry … by Elaine Stewart Sept13, 2020 -  Window Box Gallery Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West Toronto, ON My dirty laundry, as installation, reflects on two of my most appalling experiences with the medical industrial pharmaceutical complex. It is an ambivalent response as the system that rescued me is the same system that undid me. The psychiatric drugs that I fought against taking to halt my post partum depression induced a psychotic break. My resultant suicide attempt, as a result of this break, left me with one functional limb and a wheelchair. I continue to consume psychiatric drugs; I have not been able to roll away from them. They continue to interrupt my thinking and functioning and making processes. Elaine Stewart immigrated to Canada from Scotland at a very early age and has worked with threads and fabrics for much of her life. Her family history is bounded by textiles. When older, she started at the Toronto School of Art and began to

The global festival of Terminalia is about boundaries and borders, real, historical, fictional, imagined, and marks places of beginnings, endings and thresholds. ARTIFACTS and WIAprojects join Women Who Walk exploring the cusp of night for Terminalia. For ARTIFACTS, this event is another stage in their continuing project ARTISTS@WORK intended to indicate/enact the razor’s edge precariousness of women artists’ lives and labour here played out at the physical edge of two nationally respected art institutions: Art Gallery of Ontario and OCAD University. Raudvee and Patterson will circle the park, in concert and communion, with other Women Who Walk worldwide, imagining boundless potentials for women’s safety, health, housing, creativity, and access. The synchronised walk will start in Grange Park at 5:50 PM on February 23 (sunset is at 5:58 PM) and we will walk about 30 mins. Those who are interested may join us in the main lobby of OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street between