Busy week ahead. You get these weeks off work but they turn out busier than your work week. Need to:
- Continue to work making ambrotypes for the AMBROTOS KANATA project. I have been reading and trying to understand the horrors of the Residential School system in Canada. The babies and children who died were put in unmarked graves, we do not even know how many died. I keep thinking about that, monstrous, evil behaviour. How can you bury a child and not even record their name, that is beyond understanding, to not even care enough to record the name of the lost.
Got to try to photograph for KANATA. Hope to photograph remains of the school buildings for the project. Might be able to photograph the first former school, this week, not sure if I will be allowed to.
- Find a negative, scan and send it for the “Analog Forever Photography Magazine”. They need a high resolution image, only have low. The photo is connected to a story I told of children sledding down the garbage. This magazine I think is based in New York.
- Start work on a 8000-9000 letter story about THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP for the “Silver Grain Classics” Photography Magazine. Then get photos ready for that as well, deadline mid October. Found out this magazine is based in Germany.
- Continue communicating with a the historical Canadian camera organization which has a mag/newsletter, based in Toronto. They are interested in a profile, camera stuff and details on the ambrotype KANATA project.
My hope is that the project will eventually lead to raised awareness among Canadians through news organizations covering it (maybe eventually newspaper and TV news). That will help raise awareness about the subjects within KANATA like the Residential Schools, the survivors. It is so important to tell those stories and to document them, so we can learn and remember.
- Unpack and unload my Nuarc UV light unit.it was loaded on my dads old half ton truck with a small forklift last year, now I need to get it off, bring into the hose and set it up by hand, by myself. Hope the old muscles and back hold up.
Will use this wonderful machine to do carbon and platinum printing in the darkroom starting this winter. Hope to eventually use it as part of the AMBROTOS KANATA project and also to print THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP negs, plus all the other negs.
- Need to get mom a desk for her room at the centre. Mom likes to do puzzles and collecting and needs the space. Also need to book an appointment and visit her this week. There is a long procedure to get into her facility safely. I want to get her hair cut and dyed but still too worried a out Covid, mom is in a high risk group, she is 84.
- Will do a ton of cleaning at the old house, in a race against the snow. So days of work, cleaning and packing there. Also got yard work at the house. Am dreading the coming winter. Wish I was in sunny Thailand eating Som Tum instead! Laying about eating Thai food and making photos, seems more fun than carrying boxes and moping floors!
- Need to pick up my R18 RocknRoller cart from Vistek. This cart will help transport my heavy camera gear from the trailer to locations for KANATA. Will also need to build it.
- My large supply of chemicals from India arrives today. Need to receive them, then safely separate them into smaller bottles and store them in proper conditions for long time storage. Thinking of using mom and dads old root cellar for that, but will need to clean that out first. Hope to use the chemicals for many years on KANATA.
- Haul garbage to the dump, 2 loads at least. Move an upright freezer from a garage to the house, move out the stove. More back risks there.
- think there is more, but to busy to remember right now 
Great to be on my week off, NOTHING AT ALL TO DO!
