David Ing

Ignite Gallery: Suspended from ceiling, #YifanZhang (2026) Bruises is mixed textile installation of wool, on three layers of silk organza. Part of #InTheSpaceBetween show, wool fibers are pierced, compressed and shaped through needle felting and wet felting. Biomorphic forms.

OCADU Graduate Gallery: Group exhibition #ToGather, #AndreasKratschmer (2026) Sacred Water, salvaged wood and bark. Materials freshly cut as green, introducing natural processes of tension, warping, and cracking through drying, then amplified using fire and steam. (Toronto)

OCADU Grad Gallery: Group exhibition #ToGather, foreground #TaniaLove (2025) F[A.L.L.O.W] paintings of botanicals in Poland, in vintage books, letters blotted out with clay leaving small phrases. Background (2010) Wianek, paper wildflowers and artificial florals from cemetery.

Agincourt South: After dim sum, 15 minute walk taking turns to push father on transport chair from Brimley Road to McCowan Road.  Morning errand resulted in flat tire, so routed to Perfect Chinese Restaurant with Canadian Tire one long block east.  (Sheppard Ave E, Scarborough)

OCADU Grad Programs: Lecture in Interdisciplinary series by #PeterCoppin on Cross-Sensory Interaction Design. Research on perceptual-cognitive framework pictorial information to symbolized information. Project constructed 3D audio-tactile globe enables geo-spatial information.

OCADU Graduate Gallery: Sacred Landscapes #NoraAlkeyat (2025) Faculty of Intellect oil and gouache on wood panel. Rational power in soul: Excess as Arrogance, in cloud and shadow; Deficency as Ignorance, Allegory of the Cave; Wisdom as Balance with a brain-like tree.

Riverside neighborhood: Sons collaborating on diagnosing leak through ground floor ceiling, in the cleanest way possible.  Cutting, vacuuming, catching in basin.  Determined clean water, possible leak from pipe in bathroom above.  (Toronto, Ontario) 20260311

Wok & Roast: Business lunch looking ahead to Problematique Dialogue event in May, and Team Green topic of scientific progress, entrepreneurship, economic viability. Considering profiles of participants, open spaces likely to reach capacity next week. Full bandwidth in person.

OCADU Great Hall: Large canvas 7 x 10 foot #KyraKaushal (2026) Union. Two figures reaching out. Looking up materials of sindoor (red cosmetic powder) and rangoli powder (calcite, limestone), alongside acrylic and chalk powder. (OCADU Great Hall, McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario)

@OCADUgrad: Research Talk #SuzanneStein on Evolving Foresight, with historical chart also posted on the walls of Super Ordinary Lab. Career starting in ethnography, moving to Foresight in the Web 2.0 era. Recent emphasis on Creativity and Compassion. ( Toronto, Ontario) 20260304

OCADU Graduate Programs: Traditional shadow puppetry #JiayiWei (2026) Who Defines Us demonstrated by artist, I was challenged handling three rods. Accompanied by movie animating puppets depicting identity and gender roles shaped by culture and family in contemporary China.

sLab at @OCAD reintroduced; #ProblematiqueDialogue Call for Participation to #BanathyConversation now in dance of (i) topics seeking participants, and (ii) participants seeking topics. coevolving.com/blogs/re-intro… Five-day event, May 10-15, 2026, in Toronto. problematiquedialogue.org

OCADU Grad Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conf, workshop with #KatEstacio on Growing Roots: Musical Materialisms of Diasporic Filipino Kulintang. Learned about @pantayo, cultural learning. I tried large gong, preferred lower four of 8 gongs, parents + toddlers clanging together.

Dine & Dim: Unexpected lion dance at restaurant next door, as I arrived at grocery store.  Drumming drew attention, few people on Gerrard Street East on wet Friday night.  Familiar routine of lion rising up, and spitting out lettuce to bless wealth, prosperity, and good luck.

OCADU Graduate Gallery: Following theme of (Dis)Pleasure, #PabintinVanitas emulates Filipino fiesta game. Players jump to reach prizes on bamboo structure actively made accessible or unattainable. Profound dissatisfaction and displeasure with material gain. (Toronto) 20260220

OCADU Graduate Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conference, #JadeNelson on Archives aren’t dead: Small Scale Disruptions, Pause, and Experimentation Methods for Archival Engagement. Crochet created in community workshop. Materials from past can bear history for remembering in future.

OCADU Graduate Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conference, #MadelineWilmink on From Aversion to Kinship: Dissecting Human–Insect Entanglements. Inspired by urban encounters, illustrating and comparing nervous system anatomy. Sculpting metal via lost wax casting. (Toronto) 20260220

OCADU Graduate Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conference, #BrianMalott on From Happiest Place on Earth to Relational Practice: A Practical Guide to Blue Sky Dreaming and Collaborative Design. Looking to introduce design thinking, evoking joy. Lifelong Disney fan, Love Bug.

OCADU Graduate Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conference, #MelanieYan on Inside The Cocoon: Echo Chamber, Social Media, Surveillance, Control and Chinese Digital Feminism. Study on conversations and online sharing, non-mainstream communities growing with risks of online monitoring.

OCADU Grad Programs: At OCADU Graduate Conference, #JordanCrowder on The Loss of the Body in the Server-City: Disability, Friction, and the Rooftop as Site of Resistance. Autoethnographic photographic series, reflection through pandemic, and neurodegenerative condition.