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what worked for me I never paid into, what I worked at never paid off
at Hearth

September 27 – November 10, 2024
Toronto, Ontario

Poet Ami Xherro writes: 

“I drank the first time to prepare myself to drink the second time.

I drank the first time so I had to drink less the second time.

I drank the first time without knowing so the second was my first time.

I drank once to be recruited, twice to recruit others.“

She lets us know it takes a bit of time to feel the span of an occasion and let it coalesce as a definitive moment. Composed of objects and drawings by a number of collaborators, this exhibition emerged from conversations around delayed gratification, unprocessable stimulation, uninformed expression, and the afterthought that comes on time; the staircase joke whose punchline hits us all simultaneously like a phantom step.