It’s hard to believe I was in New York only the weekend before. I finished packing up a three-bedroom house, squeezed it into a 17-foot U-Haul and moved it to a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto a few days after that. After waiting out a snowstorm. Welcome to my bizarre world. (more…)
March 8th, 2006
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Daunting
March 8, 2006 by Gail
Category Expat Life, House of Fielding, Travel, Widowhood | Tags: | 2 Comments
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Utata.org
March 8, 2006 by Gail
When I was at the Toronto Flickr meetup at the Red Room last month, I promised the webmaster of Utata.org that I would write David’s testimonial for the website. Utata.org is a site created by the Utata community on Flickr, and David contributed this photo to Utata’s first project last year, the Trains Project, which became a Yahoo Pick of the Day on July 2, 2005.
It took me a long time before I was ready to sit down and write David’s Utata testimonial. It wasn’t as difficult as writing his obituary (which is mostly factual, but it’s the last thing a person would ever wish to write, at any time), but I struggle, still, with writing about David in the past tense.
David Lee Fielding (1967-2005)
A true romantic, David Fielding had a rare gift: to view the natural and physical worlds beyond casual observation. Behind the lens, his artist’s perspective found beauty and poetry — and humour — in the mundane, inviting a closer look at the everyday. His Lunchwalk series, for example, transcends the ennui of overfamiliarity to make new discoveries in the textural richness of urban decay.
David’s photos seek to rekindle, to reacquaint, to let ourselves be charmed again by the world around us. That, I believe, is one of his greatest legacies.
Thing is, David hadn’t written his Utata bio, but I think I might just use his Flickr profile for that purpose.
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