did you ever see a thorn between to roses

  (click on pictures to go to source) I learned about Douglas Coupland’s archive from his show at the Vancouver Art Gallery a couple years ago and since then I’ve been wanting to go through it. I thought it would be so cool, as diverse as his exhibit was. Here already was my imagining of Coupland. Finally, last week I got the chance to see his mythic archive, which I already had known to be large, vast and messy (a la the blog documenting its organization: http://about.library.ubc.ca/2012/07/30/unpacking-the-douglas-coupland-fonds/). Upon entering RBSC, I had my…read more

     “Did you ever see a thorn between to [sic] roses” Hi, my name is Brandon Leung and I’m in my third year at UBC, planning on an English Honours major and Art History minor. Above is a line written by an anonymous hand from the back of a snapshot photograph I bought. In this ordinary memento, there is humour, narrative and personality (‘to’ accidentally written instead of ‘two’, partially erased, but not replaced). In another snapshot I have collected, we see a mother and (presumably) her baby. In…read more