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Among bare branches and snow-laced silence, the book-buffalo waits—pages frozen in time, wisdom stacked into muscle and memory. It is not sculpture, but spellwork. It holds what we forgot we carried: story, survival, and the soft hoofbeats of future paths.

The Bison

Tucked into the natural paths at The Forks, Education is the New Bison emerges like a quiet monument.

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Tony Eetak April 9, 2025
Empty seats in a lecture hall echo with memory—fragments of thought, laughter, doubt, discovery. Education isn’t confined to presence; it resonates in absence. These still rows are archives of energy, holding the quiet hum of voices that changed everything. Most of us never make it here.

The Quiet Rows

At the University of Winnipeg, that idea lives in the space itself. It’s not just a school; it’s a meeting ground.

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Tony Eetak April 9, 2025
In Winnipeg’s playgrounds, metal tipis rise like echoes of old songs, catching sky in their spines. These are not structures but spells—frames for imagined fires and stories unspoken. Here, laughter roots in the dust, spiraling upward. Memory plays barefoot, circling the sacred geometry where past and future quietly braid. Photo: Jamie Bell

Playground

The playgrounds and gathering spaces at The Forks are layered with meaning—designed not just for function, but for story.

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Jamie Bell April 9, 2025
Winnipeg’s stonework hums in chisel tongues—glyphs of frostbitten dreams etched in sediment and soot. Faces emerge, not seen but sensed, eroded into myth by wind and waiting. Carvings press silence into permanence, where granite listens and limestone weeps. Each groove a memory. Each building, a slow exhale of forgotten hands.

Carved in Stone

All over the Forks—tucked near the riverbanks, beside trails, or half-buried in grass—you’ll find carvings.

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Tony Eetak April 9, 2025
Beneath the rusted lattice of the old rail bridges near the Forks, time bends—steel bones whispering histories into the wind, footsteps echoing between memory and motion. The river moves slow and thick below, like thought unspoken, while overhead the iron arches cradle sky and silence.

Bridges: The Forks

There’s something sacred about walking through The Forks in Winnipeg, especially when winter hasn’t quite let go.

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Tony Eetak April 7, 2025
The sky above the Arctic doesn’t shout. It murmurs. These clouds are not weather — they are memory in motion, frost turned to breath, breath returned to sky. Look too long and you forget where you end and the sky begins. Up here, nothing is separate. Everything floats.

Above the Silence

The sky above the Arctic is never empty — it is layered, textured, alive. In this photograph, clouds fold into each other like breath caught mid-motion.

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Tony Eetak April 2, 2025

Building from the Ground Up

The Digital Salvage project is inherently grassroots in nature—modeled intentionally after frameworks common within innovative technology startups, small arts and culture-driven organizations, and highly community-based development programs.

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Digital Salvage April 1, 2025
This project supported relationship development, consultation, and engagement actions to explore participatory food security research and food sector training opportunities with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Creative Entrepreneurship program. It supported research design to attract research investment to Manitoba and was led by youth from the Winnipeg-based Art Borups Corners project.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Digital Salvage is structured intentionally as an inclusive and interdisciplinary Arts-based Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative, bringing together youth from northern regions and diverse creative communities in active co-creation of a powerful new technological resource.

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Digital Salvage April 1, 2025
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