Future

Future is the second part of Difference 3, the final year of a three-part project (Difference 1, 2, and 3) that explores the experience of displacement and the process of connecting with new spaces after leaving one’s place of origin. While the first two years focused on partial perception and the complexities of coexisting with others (i.e. Homework, Birds, Pájaros Birds, Below, Water, Traces and Report on Unidentified Flying Objects), this final stage moves toward a fuller understanding—one built through empathy, collaboration, and a willingness to truly listen.

For Future, I worked with children in Mexico and Canada, inviting them to imagine where they might live in the future. Each child brought a favourite toy to the photo session, and their responses—transcribed in either English or Spanish—accompanied the images. The bilingual presentation is intentional: it reflects the core of the project, which is grounded in cross-cultural dialogue and the emotional landscapes of migration. Language, like imagination, becomes a bridge—allowing the work to remain open, accessible, and resonant on both sides of that experience. By combining words and photographs, the series explores how we can begin to envision what is still beyond our reach.

This selection represents a small sample of the full project.

With thanks

This work was made possible through the generous and open-hearted support of Dunloe Children’s Centre in Toronto. My heartfelt thanks to Lisa Cohen, Executive Director, for believing in the project and helping to share it with families. I’m also deeply grateful to the parents who kindly allowed their children to participate—both in Toronto and in Mexico City—despite not knowing me personally. A very special thanks to Ana G., who connected me with all the families and children in Mexico City—this wouldn’t have been possible without her.

These acts of trust and generosity became the foundation of the project itself. In it, I explore perception as something intrinsically linked to empathy—as a way to represent how our understanding of the world can expand when we take an interest in others. This work could only take shape through that spirit of collaboration: the simple, generous act of participating without personal gain, but with a genuine openness toward what lies beyond oneself.