Lessons of lichen: Fei Disbrow’s photo-sculptures

Lessons of lichen: Fei Disbrow’s photo-sculptures

Explore Vancouver artist Fei Disbrow’s luminous photo-sculptures in Quietly Palpable, a Capture Photo Fest exhibition at Gallery Jones that transforms lichens, moss and algae into immersive, biophilic forms. This exhibition blends photography and sculpture to reimagine cryptogamic landscapes as tactile, otherworldly portals.

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Cirrus asks what it means to be an artist in a world of machines

Cirrus asks what it means to be an artist in a world of machines

screeching container ports, fairy armadillos, advantageous appendages…


Coming in from a bright sunny afternoon, I am temporarily blinded upon entering the Western Front’s dim gallery. Somewhat ironically, I have to rely on my other senses to locate the leather-covered bench facing the two-channel video installation of Cirrus (2025) by Holly Márie Parnell. The work by the Irish-Canadian filmmaker takes its name from slender appendages used by animals to navigate without sight—like moles, who use cirrus to traverse subsurface landscapes.

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