Events > Book Launch

02 Dec. 2023

O hopeful Yearmaker

Artists
Philip Leonard Ocampo and Alana Traficante
Time
5-7 pm

Join us for the launch of O hopeful Yearmaker – a 2024 calendar and artist book debuting 12 new paintings by Philip Leonard Ocampo and accompanying writing by Alana Traficante.⁠⁠

Painted and written alongside the unfurling of 2023, O hopeful Yearmaker asks Traficante and Ocampo to draw upon synaesthetic, introspective interpretations of a year. To share experiences with each other as reflection and foretelling of months both bygone and forthcoming maps a dialogue informed by a growing friendship.⁠⁠ An electric consciousness reverberates across these works as though no singular, time-based vessel, such as a month, could contain them. In their seriality, time unfolds in its durational sense—as it is lived, felt and acted.⁠⁠Through intuition and symbology in words and images, the project contemplates parallel experiences of the year and asks: if life is so chaotic, electric and precious, how could colonial time ever fathom the soul of it?⁠⁠

O hopeful Yearmaker is available for pre-order now!


Philip Leonard Ocampo is a Toronto based artist and whose artworks examine personal desire. Primarily working in sculpture, installation and drawing, Ocampo uses mysticism and the nonphysical as tools for introspection. His work often engages with concepts in relation to privilege, queerness, love, family and the ways in which they intersect.

Ocampo also works in freelance animation, illustration and ceramic practices.
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