With My Eyes Open

01 / 10

11:22 am

Marble at the Door

A torso kept the doorway, and the bright room beyond stayed a room away.

AGO · 23mm · ƒ/6.4 · 1/20 · ISO 500

A white marble torso in the foreground, visitors in a lit gallery through the doorway

02 / 10

11:35 am

Waiting for a Field

Apple Harvest behind four strangers. I waited my turn for an orchard.

the Impressionist room
23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/27 · ISO 125

Backs of four visitors before Pissarro's Apple Harvest in its gold frame

03 / 10

11:39 am

Two Women

One woman studying another, a century between them, both holding still.

Anquetin, Woman at Her Toilette · 23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/8 · ISO 125

A dark-haired visitor before Anquetin's painting of a red-haired woman combing her hair

04 / 10

11:55 am

Passing Through Blue

She blurred through the blue room, the way the exit sign wanted.

the European galleries
23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/4 · ISO 100

A visitor in white blurring across the blue-walled gallery under an exit sign

05 / 10

11:57 am

The West Wind

Thomson's pine has leaned into it for a century. Two more of us came to check.

the Canadian rooms · 23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/8 · ISO 125

Two visitors before Tom Thomson's The West Wind

A video screen of closed eyes glowing on a dark wall between gilded paintings, visitors in silhouette

07 / 10

12:13 pm

Their Own Dusk

Harris's mountains lit their own dusk and let the room stay dark.

Lawren Harris
23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/30 · ISO 125

Lawren Harris's white arctic peaks glowing along a dim gallery wall

08 / 10

12:18 pm

Blue, Barely

Nakamura's blues keeping to themselves, on a wall the light had given up.

Kazuo Nakamura · 23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/30 · ISO 125

Blue abstract paintings on a dark wall, sculptures in a bright room beyond

A mirrored city of silver spires reflected upside down in a dark room, one blurred visitor passing

10 / 10

12:30 pm

What Cannot Leave

Moore's plaster bones at rest. We photograph what cannot leave the room.

Henry Moore
23mm · ƒ/4 · 1/500 · ISO 400

Henry Moore's plaster sculptures at rest, two visitors photographing them