ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN BLOG: Karen Justl

BIO: Karen Justl is an illustrator and graphic designer. She holds an MDes (Masters of Design) from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Ontario. She is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba where she received her BFA Honors in Painting at The University of Manitoba. She is also an interdisciplinary visual artist researching caricature, facial expression, body language, illustration techniques and Freud's theories of slapstick humour & the uncanny. Her illustrations have been published across Canada in Applied Arts, subTerrain Magazine, Chesterfield, Kiss Machine, Herizons MB, Pilot Project and Crow's Toes. She teaches in the Digital Lab at the Toronto School of Art and in Continuing Studies at OCAD University.

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Houses of Certainty


web site for The Remedy
a short b/w film and story
by Malcolm Rogge








Karen Justl
Title: I Think She's Dead (Little Criminals and the Theatre of Punishment)
 The Music Gallery/ St. George the Martyr Anglican Church, Toronto
Opening November 24th, 2009 from 8 to 10pm
Viewing for the public November 26th to 28th from 12 to 4pm
(also potentially part of church service Sunday November 29th 9am and 10:30am)

with folk/experimental/soul band, Bruce Peninsula on November 27th and 28 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/brucepeninsula


Project Description:
I Think She's Dead (Little Criminals and the Theatre of Punishment)is an installation toying with the tactics of the panopticon.
The Tower-Man is The All Seeing See Being. The constituents of The City have Him in their constant view. They are never sure, it is unverifiable, that The Tower-Man is looking at them at any moment. But they are certain that he may always be so. While they perform their tasks, he is the surveyor of symptoms and the mapper of aptitudes. In hospital, school, factory, shopping mall and prison, life is reduced to its simplest expression in The City. The Tower-Man watches while they are working and according to their crimes and character they are separated in their small world each, a frame, an open house, a window. Who is the See Being, The Tower-Man, with his strange transparent material presence? Who indeed! It does not really matter, some say. Any one of them could operate the machine! It does not matter who he is or what motives animate him. The inhabitants of The City ponder the perversity of those who take pleasure in their purposeful occupation of spying and punishment.

 The Forest surrounds The City and The Winged Guardian of The Forest keeps watch as The Lone One is hunted. She escaped last October.

The Inhabitants of The City reside in the Houses of Certainty. They are as follows:

The Praying Lady inhabits the High Hospital.
The Scholarly Brute inhabits the School of Sharper Focus.
The Faceless Workers inhabit the Factory of Much Mechanics.
The Acorn-Headed Fancy Dressed & Accessorized Lady with the hand-mirror inhabits the Shopping Mall of Many Goods.
The Blackguard inhabits the Long Prison and so also does the Caged Boy, his deft prisoner.











preliminary maps of the project space






























































the players and the themes, theories and schemes









































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