Days Ending in Why

• Main Author: Martin, Julia
• Other Authors: Cousineau-Levine, Penny
• Language: en
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
• Subjects: Visual Art; Fine Art; Narrative; Story; Photography; Fragments; Memory; Trauma; Dark humour; Mourning; Melancholia; Grief; Loss; Vignette
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32993; http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4116

In DAYS ENDING IN WHY, interdisciplinary artist Julia Martin identifies the schism of her autobiographical practice: deep melancholia and absurd irony. The fragmentation of the works presented knowingly resist cohesion, instead, through their arrangements and the potentials of space between them, they carry on conversations with one another. Rooted in the personal narrative, the works span across multiple mediums; photography, film, installation/sculpture, and literature. Martin emphasizes both the tragic and the comedic, pacing the show as a play between the two. Also, there are cats. So many cats.