points of departure
May 6 – Jun 5
Danielle Bleackley

Opening May 6, 6-8 pm




Danielle Bleackley, Untitled 2000, from the series points of departure


Our experience of and movement through this world cannot be captured in a solitary image; it is the overlapping of time and the stillness that exists in a moment that colors our experience.

Each day, as we move forward a distance grows from where and who we were before. It is here that we enter into a state of transition. I am intrigued by this state of inbetweenness, of being separate from the past, finding a kind of floating stillness. An airplane, a motel, a highway; these are all transitory places that exist in between, spaces that we experience briefly and yet they remain a link between our past and our future. They become our points of departure.

Danielle Bleackley is a photo-based artist living in Toronto. She studied Studio Arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and completed her BFA in Photography at Ryerson University in 2001. Her work has been exhibited locally, published in COUPE Magazine, and was included in the recent ShotBox post-card series: Secrets. She currently teaches and coordinates photography programs for youth in Toronto.