By Kimberley Mok The ubiquitous mansard roofs* of Montréal have always fascinated me. From the monumental to the ordinary vernacular, these distinctive roofs inspired by the once-popular Second Empire** style give the built surface a tactile depth to the multi-layered character of the city. Some stand rotting on dilapidated corners, now only silent witnesses to better times. On other streets they are painted in proud colours, basking in the rosy light of another setting sun, somehow opening onto other dimensions of imaginations about the city. *A ...

By Kimberley Mok The first "Know Hope" installation back in June was a visual reinterpretation of the Mont Royal tam-tams going on in full swing. Now after a stroll down Mile End's quaint maze of laneways, here's the newest whimsical reverie about what happens when one encounters a short door (made for the Little People?) and a graffiti commandment to "Gnome Yo'self" (original photos below)?

By Dave Bergeron and Kimberley Mok "Know Hope" will be a series of illustrative vignettes exploring and re-imagining Montréal's urban spaces, cultural life and other compelling urban mysteries which are always in the process of unfolding. Psychogeographical* in nature, this series of humourous visual reveries hopes to chart a slightly different map of urban consciousness. This first installation is a mandala** depicting Mont Royal and her environs, inspired by a daydream of the tam-tams as the locus of intense energy in the city during Sundays, prompting the angel statue to fly off in ...

Photo taken May 30, 2008 at Blvd. St. Laurent and Ave. Viger