Movements

Explore the Seven Movements

Seven movements form one continuous emotional journey: from the ordinary certainty of home, through rupture and displacement, to the strange work of rebuilding a life somewhere new.

HOME

Home is about the life whose value we often understand only after it becomes a memory. Family voices. School mornings. Work. Familiar streets. The quiet certainty of knowing where …

RAPTOR

Raptor is about the moment when fear changes its shape. At first, the predator is outside. Then something changes inside the person who has to protect the people they love. Instinc…

III

NOWHERE

You have already left home, but you have not found a new one yet. The body keeps moving forward. Memory keeps looking back. Suitcases. Airports. Borders. Temporary rooms. Waiting. …

NOW HERE

One space changes everything. NOWHERE becomes NOW HERE. But arriving somewhere does not mean that you have already arrived inside yourself. Toronto is moving around you. Everything…

THE MACHINE

You have arrived. But arrival is only the beginning. Now comes the machinery of rebuilding a life: resumes, interviews, rejections, forms, documents, rent, schools, appointments, d…

I BELIEVE

After survival comes another challenge: learning how to hope again. The city is no longer completely unfamiliar. There are known streets, new friends, children building their own l…

VII

BETWEEN TWO SKIES

The final movement is not about finding an answer. It is about learning to live without one. One part of life remains there. Another has begun to grow roots here. The wooden flute …