The following collection of graphite rubbings are daily observations of urban infrastructure and household objects during September, October and November 2012.  This forced practice of observation was designed to cultivate an obsessive awareness of the textures and patterns in Montreal.

The original rubbings are bound into a one of a kind book.

Contents
Freedom

1.  Visual art building elevator floor
2.  Visual art building elevator wall
3. Railing from Visual Arts building stairwell
4.  Paving stone outside Visual Art building
5.  Wall of Engineering/Visual Art building elevator
6.  Stump for sitting inside coffee shop on Rachel St.
7.  Shelf in ceramic studio
8. Decorative cut out around garbage cans in China town, Ottawa
9. Paving stone outside Visual Art building
10. Tree stump in Monalulu Forest, Ottawa
11. Concrete paving stone outside Visual Art building and amp grill
12. 9th floor Engineering/Visual Arts building

Threshold

1. Conduit cover on platform of St. Henri metro station
2. Conduit cover inside Sherbrooke metro station
3. Montreal Conduits manhole cover on St. Catherine St.
4. Electric transformer number 3627 cover
5. Drain cover on Rene-Levesque St
6. Manhole cover on Rachel St
7. Electric transformer number 2981 cover
8. Manhole cover on Montcalm St
9. Manhole cover on Amherst St
10. Tree grate on Maisonneuve St
11. Conduit cover outside Mount Royal metro station
12. Conduit cover half way down stairs in Beaudry metro station
13. Electric transformer number 2761 cover
14. Floor plate inside door on Beaudry metro station
15. Tree grate on Mountcalm St
16. Telephone wire manhole cover on Sainte-Catherine St
17. Drain cover in ally behind St. Marie St
18. Manhole cover on Wolfe St
19. Electric transformer number 4157
20. Conduit cover on Crescent St
21. Tree cover on Notre Dame St
22. Exit sign on 4th floor Visual Art building

Passage

1. Door of Lucien L’Allier metro station
2. Charlevoix metro station floor
3. Peel metro station floor
4. Peel metro station wall
5. Peel metro station floor
6. Peel metro station floor
7. Beaudry metro station wall
8. Guy/Concordia metro station wall
9. Lionel Groulx metro station floor
10. Place St Henri metro station floor
11. Ventilation grate on platform at Beaubien metro station

Trespass

1. Letter from Windsor Hotel sign
2. Façade of a house on Notre Dame St
3. Sign for Eliza Griffiths show, Love, Alienation and Free Associations, in the FOFA Gallery
4. House number on 1220 St. Jacques St
5. Ventilation cover inside Chateau Laurier Ottawa
6. Grave of Nicholas Brian Carter, born into heaven September 23 2004 Cherished baby of Chris and Sandy
7. Crate #2 of Red Cross blood donor clinic equipment
8. Licence plate of Black convertible BMW parked on Crescent st

Urgency

1. Emergency call station at Place St Henri metro station
2. Emergency sprinkler system for Engineering/Visual Art building
3. Floor plate between main doors to Champ du Mars metro station taken during peak foot traffic time
4. Landing plate at bottom of escalator in Berri UQAM metro station taken during peak foot traffic time
5. Landing plate at bottom of escalator in bank taken during peak foot traffic time
6. Landing plate at top of escalator in Faubourg shopping mall taken during peak foot traffic time
7. Landing plate at bottom of escalator in Engineering/Visual Art building taken during peak foot traffic time
8. Floor plate between main doors to Engineering/Visual Art building taken during peak foot traffic time
9. Fire alarm in residential building on Montcalm
10. Elevator call buttons in Engineering/Visual Art building
11. Elevator buttons inside Engineering/Visual Art building, taken during peak traffic time, all of which had to be pressed to take rubbing
12. Elevator buttons inside Visual Art building
13. Emergency call button inside Visual Art building
14. Sprinkler system on Peel St
15. Grate between cars of moving metro train
16. Valve on outside of stopped metro train
17. Step on back of parked ambulance
18. Access plate on side of idling fire truck, 46 Freightliner on St Remi St, lights flashing, fire men tending to emergency

Redomestication

1. My new address
2. A leaf from the Sumac tree outside my new apartment
3. A childhood toy promoted to watching over my parents’ kitchen
4. An element on my stove
5. A letterpress turbot
6. The grate over a vent in an old friend’s house
7. Vinyl Sfortata steel orchestra record
8. Tiles in a village loft bathroom
9. The lace of a parasol
10. The cover of the diary I lost
11. The floor of a house I sat
12. Reproduction brass for recreational/ educational rubbing
13. Vent grate in loft building I sat
14. Quilled phonebook
15. Fan cover