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If your home was a book, what would the…

  • November 22, 2022November 22, 2022
  • by PXmujeres

Where were you when your house was created?
Did you help write its origin story?

“Home. That blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.”

– Lydia M. Child
Sylvie now and then our home as a written story
Looking into the looking glass of your home.

If your home reads like a book, do you like the prose?

Is your home older than you? Does your home have a story or two to tell?

Our homes are deeply personal extensions of who we are. The textures and fabrics of our homes contain layers of depth far beyond our years. They have their own stories to tell.  

Maybe you live in a newly built home that is writing its first chapter. Or, are you in a century home, one that’s rich in history, like a tome stuffed with tales and dusty memories?

Did you choose your home or did it choose you?

Do you ever wonder how long your home will live after you have moved on to another home or another life?

‘Arte-facts’ of life carry your poetry with them, long after you are gone.

  • sylvie now and then antique credenza cabinet in dining room
  • sylvie now and then antique table and classic flowers with guest bed
    sylvie now and then antique table and classic flowers with guest bed
  • sylvie now and then small plant pot on a window ledge

Inspired Restoration

On a recent visit to my client’s home, I was inspired to photograph her parent’s home. Sylvie lovingly restored this forgotten century old home, cleaned out debris, disinfected and eliminated mold, added rich layers of personal effects for decor and dedicated the living room for dance lessons.

She has revived this home and opened a new chapter in her life.

How many chapters will you add to your home’s story?

sylvie-now-and-then living room and sitting room decor
sylvie-now-and-then classic simple welcoming dining room with potted plant


Now and Then…

One day you are the central character in your home’s story. The next day, the page is blank.

One day you are the central character in your home. Sylvie now and then sitting in dining room
next day you are gone and your home story goes on.

If your home was a book, what would the title be? 

 

Enjoy living photo stories?  check out this one about living in an urban condo of magical light.

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Chihuly bursts in colour and dreams

  • November 11, 2016January 29, 2022
  • by PXmujeres

‘glass is the one of the last raw materials to be fully explored’ is the message from Chihuly, in his lifetime of working with glass for sculpture and art.

His glass works explore light, colour, life, and suspend dreams in a thousand reflections.
On a recent visit to the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), I chose to capture Chihuly’s colour bursts and dream like take on life in his art.

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Art in Life – Montreal

  • October 23, 2016December 18, 2016
  • by PXmujeres

August marks our annual journey to Montreal. Each summer brings us a new experience of art in life. Each August, we are invited to discover colour, light, installations of creative thought in this wonderful city.

Touring The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), art became life, intertwined in our thoughts, sounds, movement and space.

Liz Magor Pantry Shelf Close Up
Jean-Pierre Gauthier wall of lines extract
Edmund Alleyn sculpture art with a guest participant

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Love Squared

  • November 9, 2015November 10, 2015
  • by PXmujeres

love-squared-graffiti-large-web-listingQuestion remains: what is love to man?

Has anyone ever truly figured out that answer?


This photo:
Part of a large graffiti message along the streets of Toronto.
This particular section is along the base, edge of the sidewalk.
What does it mean to really love? the man seems to ask.

 

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Art in Urban Decay

  • July 27, 2015February 9, 2016
  • by PXmujeres

There is a subtle beauty in the decay of modern humanity.
Places destroyed, waiting. Patient. Stoic perhaps. Holding on to remnants of what was.

The past decaying into present beauty.  Art in Urban Decay.

 

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Fresh Asparagus

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