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Publication Date: May 18, 2026 - 04:00
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Mathematician uses traffic camera footage to create art
May 18, 2026
Martin Brooks, a former hedge fund mathematician, moved to the visual arts field more than a decade ago. He creates art pieces using a combination of software he developed plus City of Ottawa traffic camera footage. His first exhibition, Quiet City, showcases more than 30 prints that offer a unique view of familiar city streets. Doug Hempstead, CBC Ottawa's traffic reporter, went to the gallery to learn more.
Now walk away from that cube
of comfortable air, the cone of light,
the cupboards filled with folded
likenesses of you.
Go out in the darkness
of an ordinary forest
where nothing has any love for you.
The leaves are not the least bit
green, encased in a mass of blackness
solid as a wall but still
minutely subdivided.
The ground calls out to your body,
asking you to lie down in it and rest,
to breathe its familiar smells.
This is the place where nothing is untrue.
The animals are out there somewhere
teetering on their sticklike legs.
They’re not going home, tonight, or ever.
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