Shary Boyle is a Canadian visual artist working across a variety of mediums with astonishing skill. Her current show at the Museum of  Art and Design features sculpture, ceramics, and film work, but oddly I was most taken with the simplest portion - cut-out figures manipulated by hand and projected by an overhead projector. The kind that my 7th grade science and math teachers would use to teach us about fractions or quadratic equations or the effects of erosion. Her figures are given life by her hand once when she draws them or carves them out of paper and then a second time when she moves them by hand across our eyelines. This one in particular I thought was uniquely beautiful. A young bicycle rider moves across a late summery evening's landscape. A silhouette moving across the surface of time languidly as if none of this will evre come to an end.

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