My very first impressions as I left the St. Laurent train station and started to walk up north on St. Laurent street.

A pencils crayon sketch of the houses on the southeast side of the intersection Sherbrooke and St. Laurent.  The way the red brick houses were lined up reminded of a cadence of musical notes, a rhythmn...dum da dum da dee dum dum...blah.

Site no. 1:
St. Laurent between Sherbrooke and Ontario.  On the left, the empty lot was already framed by the fence, a fence full of geometric shapes.  On the right side is a picture of a grafitti stricken wall, band-aided with advertisements and posters.

There was actually an immense bright red bow adorning the facade of the Dumoulin Building during the Christmas holidays...hmmm....

Integration of sketches and photos and tracing paper (atop of the yellow clothed tree sketch, left side).

The dead branches adorning the covering atop of the storefront are interweaved with Christmas lights that light up at nighttime.

Frames formed by tree branches.

A saran-wrapped tree.

Site no. 2:
Sherbrooke between St. Famille and St. Urbain.  Note that the sign on the lightpost is tilted.  I was interested by the transient nature of the huge space bordering Sherbrooke, filled with parked cars of UQAM students during the day and abandoned at nighttime.

The fence that borders the parking lot have key holes punched into them. So when the sun shined on the fence, a sun-key is produced on the other side on the soft-powdered snow.

Site no. 3:
Milton and St. Famille.  Walking on the street with tall buildings on either side reminded me of Gulliver's Tale where Gulliver traveled to the land of the Lilluputians. The tall buildings on either side served as gatekeepers to the little land of 3-storey buildings.