A small square book rests upright at an angle, the spine reads: I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA CATHY BUSBY AM. The cover of the book is white with abstract letter-looking outlines in green painters tape. — I WONDER: ART+CARE+DEMENTIA, artist book, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

A book is splayed on a white background. The spine reads: I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA CATHY BUSBY AM. The cover of the book is white with abstract letter-looking outlines in green painters tape. — I WONDER: ART+CARE+DEMENTIA, artist book, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA, launch event card, July-September 2025.

Remembering Names, Cathy and Garry in front of installation, writing in pencil on wall, CSA Space, Vancouver, 2018. Photo: Alisha Weng.

Remembering Names, Garry Kennedy writing detail, installation, CSA Space, Vancouver, 2018. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

Quarantine Countdown, painting process detail, with Garry sorting books, Louis Brier Home & Hospital, Vancouver, 2021. Photo: Cathy Busby

Arrangement by Garry Neill Kennedy, pyjama bottom with belt on folded throw, Louis Brier Home and Hospital, Vancouver, 2021. Photo: Cathy Busby

I WONDER, bathroom wall painting installation in progress, detail, Parkview care facility, 2021. Photo: Cathy Busby

I WONDER, wall-text installation with Cathy Busby painting, detail, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2021. Photo: Mark Bell

I WONDER, wall-text installation, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2021-24. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

I WONDER: ART+CARE+DEMENTIA (2025)

Launch events for Busby's recent book I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA took place over the summer of 2025, including at the Vancouver Art Book Fair (Vancouver, July 4-6), C.L.A.M. (Vancouver, Aug 5), Art Metropole (Toronto, Aug 17), Halifax Art Book Fair (Halifax, Aug 22-23), and The Federal Store Café (Vancouver, Sept 27).

Books are available for purchase, $25, at The Polygon Gallery, READ books, The Federal Store, National Gallery of Canada Boutique, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Shop, and both in store and online at Art Metropole.

Related Projects:

Related Readings / Media:

Cathy Busby I WONDER Talk, HABF

I WONDER Artist Book

I WONDER Folder

Cathy Busby I WONDER Interview, CBC Radio

I WONDER at Art Metropole

Halifax Art Book Fair

Cathy Busby on Art, Care, and Dementia, Akimbo

Themes / Topics:

Commemoration / remembering / memory / memorializing

Forms / Mediums:

Wall-text paintings