life

A collection of square photographs capturing moments from myles' life.

Cracked white sculpture of a seated figure curled forward, hands covering its face, among weeds beside a wooden retaining wall.

3 Oct, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Pencil sketch of an ankle boot facing left, with a chunky heel, treaded sole and ankle strap, surrounded by shading tests and scribbles.

my drawing from last night’s intro to drawing class at the Toronto School of Art.
A dim interior looking out through an open ornate black door and glass entrance onto a street, with a parked grey car and sunlit autumn trees outside.

waiting for 1RG community dinner to start.
A charcoal drawing pinned to a white wall with clear pushpins. A teapot with a short spout on the left sits against a heavily smudged dark background, its open lid swung up and back on a hinge at the upper right. The teapot and lid are left as pale, streaky paper where the charcoal was lifted or left out. Below the drawing, a small white card reads "Introduction to Drawing, with Tina Oehmsen-Clark". Edges of other charcoal drawings show above and to the right.

a teapot
An earlier state of the teapot drawing, clipped to the easel with a yellow clip and a black clip at the top edge. The teapot's open mouth, spout, and pale body sit against dense, scrubbed dark charcoal, with the open lid above on its hinge at the upper right. The background is rougher and less even than in the finished version.

the teapot, earlier
A charcoal drawing on white paper held by a yellow clip and a metal bulldog clip on a paint-spattered wooden easel. Dark charcoal fills a squarish block in the lower two-thirds of the page, leaving the splayed legs and crossbar of an upturned stool as white paper in the shape of an H. Easels, stools, and a purple-draped table are visible in the studio behind.

an upside-down stool
A charcoal drawing on white paper clipped to a paint-spattered wooden easel. Four studies of the upright iron are arranged in a loose grid, each drawn by shading the dark space around and inside it: blocky outlines with smudged grey sides, a narrow dark slot where the gap in the handle is. Two long horizontal lines run across the upper half of the page.

the iron, four times
A vintage chrome clothes iron with a black handle stands upright on its heel on top of a tan shoebox with a black "MAG creative footwear" band. The box sits on a paint-spattered stool in an art studio with worn wooden floorboards. A table draped in purple cloth with an upturned stool on top is behind it, and wooden easels and stools fill the background.

an iron
An orange tabby cat lying stretched out in the sun on a herringbone brick front patio, looking off to the right. Behind it, concrete steps with white wrought-iron railings lead up to a red-brick porch, with leafy plants and a climbing vine along the low wall. A fern sits in the lower left and a white iron fence runs across the foreground.

the neighbourhood tabby holding court
A painted wall in an alley at night. Along a white-painted strip at the base of the wall, a row of small black silhouettes walks in single file on a thin wavy line: a rider on a horse, a pony, and a line of figures with packs, bows, and an axe, led by a tall figure with a pointed hat and a staff. Handwritten to the right: "@DEWUCME 26, Fellowship of the Ring". Above, grey brick with blue, pink, and black graffiti; below, a concrete floor with dry leaves and faded stencilled lanterns.

19 Sep, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Sheets of white paper are pinned to a white wall, each holding a charcoal drawing of a vessel. The largest sheet, at centre, shows a wide mug with a looping handle on its left side, shaded in soft grey with faint construction lines still running through the form and a small dark saucer sketched beside its base. Above it, a cropped sheet shows the foot and round base of a goblet. To the right, a rounded jug with a short neck is drawn over ruled vertical and horizontal guidelines, and below that a smaller pitcher is sketched in loose outline. A deep red wall runs down the left edge of the frame.

a mug
An overhead view of a wooden table covered in snack-dinner ingredients: two bags of chopped Asian salad kit, a bag of sea salt and vinegar kettle chips, a tin of assorted quail eggs and meatballs with its lid removed, a plate of snap peas, a stainless steel mixing bowl, two empty drinking glasses, a small plastic tub of pickled red onion, and two more plastic containers. A hand reaches in from the top right holding a piece of food.

boy dinner
A large bouquet of pink and coral flowers—roses, ranunculus, gerbera daisies, and astilbe—in a glass vase on a cluttered desk, with a bookshelf, a poster of a red bridge over a river, a candle, and potted plants on a windowsill in the background.

someone sent me some flowers today
A large plywood board leans against a wooden fence next to a green recycling bin on a sidewalk. A rose is drawn on the board in thick black marker or paint, with 'CALL ME WHEN' underlined and 'YOU GET HOME' handwritten below it.

someone’s plywood confession, propped by the recycling
A large pile of crinkle-cut fries on a paper napkin, with two small cups of ketchup and two white compostable takeout containers (one labeled 'polish' in marker) on a black tray on a marble-topped table, a red folding chair in the background.

7 Sep, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A roadside gas station and Subway restaurant seen across a highway from a grassy shoulder, under a partly cloudy sky. A wooden sign post stands in the foreground on the right.

7 Sep, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Evening light on a white garage and house with a corner window, seen along a gravel driveway. Tall trees frame the scene on both sides, with a cornfield visible beyond a hedge in the background, and a stone path leading through grass in the foreground.

6 Sep, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Red flowers blooming beside a cornfield, with a hummingbird hovering nearby, enlarged in a circular inset.

6 Sep, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Bright blue swimming pool on a sunny day, with trees, a cornfield, and billowing white clouds beyond.

6 Sep, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Sunset light filtering through a dark grove of trees, casting long beams across a grassy field.

5 Sep, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Sunny backyard patio beneath a white pergola, overlooking a green lawn surrounded by trees.

5 Sep, 2026 at 12:53 PM
White hydrangea blooms and a dark hedge in the foreground, a mowed lawn beyond, then a fog-shrouded cornfield rising to a treeline, all under a flat grey sky.

corn field’s given up on being seen today
The same echeveria, now with two much taller, arching stalks trailing dusty-pink and burgundy blooms down toward the frame's edges. It sits in a rusted galvanized planter on a patio, with a cream outdoor sofa and a brick wall with a decorative iron panel blurred behind it.

an echeveria end of summer
A bottle of red wine and a glass poured half full on a speckled grey side table at night, a small black speaker beside the glass, a white rocking chair and a flowering shrub lit up in the dark background.

drove up into a pink sky, hydrangeas glowing in the dark, wine on the porch, and Theo pressed against my leg, hiding from the coyotes howling