Whispering City

First presented in 1994 by the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Whispering City is a body of large photo-etchings by June Clark which “…explores issues around history, memory and identity, both personal and cultural.” (These) “…autobiographical works evoke intimate reflections of the artist’s childhood in Harlem and her immigration to Canada in 1968. Representing fragments of a social and cultural landscape, her sculptural works and photo-etchings communicate a range of emotions and events, capturing both the pleasures and pain of her youth.” – Joan Tooke

Whispering City has been exhibited in Austria, Canada and the USA.

“The person we think we are; the person others think we are; the person we really are”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“She said, “If you put your menstrual blood in a man’s food, he’ll love you forever”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“Even then I knew that people mistook kindness for weakness.”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“Janet Gardner was a great fascination for all of us because she had gotten her period”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“When she said, “You dirty little wench,” I ran home to look it up in the dictionary”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“Grey Saturday mornings remind me of when Mrs. Clark was stabbed underneath Mamay’s window”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“You can’t repent too soon for you don’t know how soon it will be too late”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“Also, going around the corner would be delicious in itself because we were forbidden to do so”

107 cm. x 137 cm.

“My overwhelming frustration always came when they began to spell”

137 cm. x 107 cm.

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action”

137 cm. x 107 cm.

“Fine, thank you and you?”

137 cm. x 107 cm.