I Looked For Sarah Everywhere | Part 1

My name is Gilbert Boyer. I’m from Montreal. And I did create the work called “I Looked For Sarah Everywhere.”

The project started with a proposal that I made about making a series of granite plaques inscribed with private inscriptions in the public space, kind of a journal that would be engraved on the granite. And they accepted my proposal and I came to Toronto and then I faced the fact that I didn’t know Toronto. I was used to do my projects in a city that I knew and the space that I knew. And suddenly in Toronto I didn’t know the space, I didn’t know the city very well even if I had come before. And I guess that what happened is I was a little bit depressed at some point and I decided to go inside the Cathedral, the St. James Cathedral and discovered that there were a few dozens of plaques commemorating people that had lived in the old part of Toronto. And I was taking notes and discovered there were a few person called Sarah. And from then on I decided to make more research about the city, the old part of the city. And while I was researching I thought, “Well, maybe my research of the city and understanding the city would be a good subject.” And at some point maybe the name of Sarah that I had wrote many times in my paper was the starting point or there was an image of looking for a woman. And then I started talking about the project as “I Looked For Sarah Everywhere.” And it became a real person instead of just an image or a metaphor.

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