#whatdoyoufeelwhen
#whatdoyoufeelwhen is a Canada-wide campaign that saw one thousand 24”x 36” posters of Dunkley’s portrait posted in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. Images from this project are then used to subvert, reconfigure and infuse new meaning to the digital space of Instagram. The poster uses Dunkley’s own face that has been altered to resemble pen and ink drawings published in the 17th century Montreal Gazette. Slave owners would buy space and place these drawings in papers in order to hunt for escaped slaves. By recontextualizing the escaped slave poster, Dunkley references the history of slavery in Canada and the United States as well his own contemporary feelings of being studied, dehumanized, and pursued.
These posters are placed on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations known as Vancouver, the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region and home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III known as Calgary, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands in the place called Toronto, and on the land located on unceded Indigenous territory where the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters in the place known as Montreal. 
Sharing our new project - a hybrid artist residency program called newlocation. Call for Participants - link in bio. Join us in shaping a reflective community of practice that nurtures creative inquiry and process. Through a combination of facilitated conversations, open dialogue, critique and coaching, newlocation offers forward-thinking creative practitioners an opportunity to contemplate, articulate and initiate transformative ways of being in the world. We welcome applications from Canadian artists and creative practitioners of any discipline or practice. For application and more information visit www.newlocation.ca
It’s quite easy to project feelings that someone is not welcome. Trail Encounters link in bio.
Everyone enjoys trails except for, you know, the macro and micro aggressions from other people.
What do you feel when you encounter an Other in a place you don’t expect? Trail Encounters. Link in bio
New project! Trail encounters. What happens inside us when we are met on our path to reverie by the unfamiliar, by an Other? Come share your experiences. Link in bio.
Of course it’s emotionally and intellectually taxing, doesn’t mean it’s time to pump the brakes.
and then you are surprised that generational trauma hyper-sensitizes people to the world