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While Kitchener’s Kat Hernden didn’t consider herself a multimedia artist until adulthood, it doesn’t mean she stopped creating it every chance she got. 

The Grade 7 teacher-turned-artist found comfort in the structure and order geometry offers and started to paint patterns again after she hit a creative block after her kids matured. But it wasn’t until she began hand-stitching canvas, following basic sketches of common patterns and shapes around the K-W region, did she feel like herself again.  

“Geometry came out of necessity because I can’t draw, I can’t do realism at all, it’s like a Neanderthal did it,” laughed Hernden. “Adding the thread opened up a whole new world for me and then just exploring that in my art is like, it feels like it’s like an endless excitingly endless pursuit.” 

The Rotunda Gallery display is several years in the making, after Hernden’s initial exhibition was delayed by the pandemic. While the pieces attracted an audience on Instagram, the artist is excited to finally put her work on display. 

“I made a lot of this work during the pandemic and I think it just made everybody slow down and recognize maybe more of the stuff that’s all around because the world got so much smaller you know,” said Hernden. “So instead of like looking externally for entertainment and interesting things, you had to kind of look a lot closer to home.” 

Her exhibit, In Plain Sight, was inspired by traditional patterns that are obvious in everyday architecture and put them on display. In Plain Sight was almost called ‘This is good too, right?’ which recognized the conspicuous nature of the patterns Hernden chose and the differences between North American and European streetscapes. 

“When you go to Europe, there’s all these beautiful mosaics and patterns, and they’re obvious, but I was like, ‘look, we’ve got all these like cool things here too that we’re just walking past all the time,’” Hernden said. “It’s sort of like you know, (the patterns are) there, you can see it, but we walk past it and kind of don’t notice them as often.”

One of her favourite pieces is based on a convenience store on King Street East and the cinder block pattern above it. This piece represents a time when Hernden started getting a deeper dive into the more hidden patterns around the K-W. 

“Kitchener especially gets a bad reputation for (being a concrete jungle),” said Hernden, who lives in East Kitchener. “Having lived in Waterloo and moving here, all of our Waterloo friends were like, ‘What are you doing?’ So I also like celebrating the fact that it is beautiful in its own way.”

Plain Sight will be on display at the Rotunda Gallery during September and October. 

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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