Leaf Watson

Emergence from Emergency

The OCAD U Creative Writing Program, stackt, So Good City and Stinson Owl-Lite present “Emergence from Emergency,” a series of poetic installations tackling today's most pressing issues. The first phase of this collaboration, called Black Realities, is an interactive journey of storytelling, vulnerability and truths around the black experience.

“I was drawn to this project for many reasons—one being the artistic and poetic challenge and another being my admiration for the neo conceptualist artist, Jenny Holzer. More importantly though, I wanted to participate in service and solidarity with my community. I felt particularly drawn to the construction signs as a mood display as they act as a powerful critique of a society and justice system under construction. I want to inspire those on their mundane commutes to think about power structures, brutality and politics. This work is meant to inspire ownership, accountability and solidarity and interrupt silence, marking it as violence and complicity.”