Avi Engel

@aviengel

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Avi Engel@aviengel· 26d

Wrote to the Minister of the Environment, and you can too, her email is julie.dabrusin@parl.gc.ca

Dear Honourable Julie Aviva Dabrusin,

I am writing to you because I was revolted to see Carney's PR campaign video that launched yesterday, when the air quality in Ontario was the worst in the world. In this video, Carney dons a cowboy hat and speaks "as a former banker" about the benefits of the TMX pipeline.

People's homes are burning down on Collins First Nation, and Carney claims that "Canadians always look after each other." As the climate crisis accelerates and intensifies, building a new pipeline does not constitute "looking after" anyone in a meaningful and long-lasting way. It constitutes ecocide.

I want to add my voice to the growing chorus of Canadians who see climate change as a true emergency, and are desperate for meaningful action.

Avi Engel
Toronto, ON
aviengel.com

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jul 12

primordial blues brush pen, fine-liners, indigo ink on Himalayan lokta paper www.patreon.com/aviengel/pos... #artbyhumans #art #drawnbyhand

original abstract ink drawing evoking botany and faces on textured handmade Tibetan paper

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jul 10

One of my favourite photos of my dad.

Old photo of a young white dark-haired jewish man watching over 2 loaves of bread

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jul 9

New album coming in mid-August, but you can pre-order it now: aviengel.com Tysm to all who have pre-ordered already 🖤🖤🖤 Photo from my music lair, featuring my new favourite tank top made by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Shirt reads: no gods no billionaires 🔥

Avi holds a four string electric guitar and wears a tank top that reads "no gods no billionaires"

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jul 7

@mirlo.space knocked it out of the park with their recent post about Constellation Records joining the site 🙌

In his book "Muse-Sick", Ian Brennan notes that "the point of punk rock was not that anyone could be a star but that there should be no stars at all". It's no understatement that the vast majority of our music industry does not follow this maxim. Across the board, the emphasis is on superstars, scale and staunch individualism as bastions of achievement that we should emulate, whether we want to or not: opting into unfavourable terms, embracing monoliths of sound and technology that block out all other light from the universe.

Thankfully, not everyone wants to operate in this way, or believes it to be for the betterment of the music ecosystem. We don't believe in a one-size-fits-all scenario for musicians and labels, recognizing the difficulties that accompany such approaches when looking at groups of people from very different backgrounds and with variable needs. It's why we're open source and integrating the social web, and why we're constantly talking to other people about their own projects. We've been trying to reframe the dominant mode of the music industry, one of capitalist supremacy and winner takes all thinking, and entrusting communities with the tools to manage their own music scenes. One concept we kept coming back to was the idea of "constellations", because as much as Ian Brennan's words resonated with us, a sky without any stars at all would be just as bleak. Our stars are clusters of activity, not singular markers where one outshines another. Like this, we can take a step back and appreciate the entire web of light shining through the night sky."

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jul 5

Fine-liners + brushpen on Himalayan lokta paper #art #drawing #inkart

abstract ink drawing of a dancing organic form on textured paper

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jun 30

15 year anniversary today 🖤

Portrait of two middle-aged-ish non-binary people wearing shades and sunhats

Avi Engel@aviengel· Jun 14

Woodland Medusa brush pen & fineliners on Himalayan lokta paper #art #medusa #artbyhumans #woodland #forest

ink drawing of a forest spirit with a medusa like head - except the creatures coming out of their head are both bird and snake like.

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 31

"trees in flight" brushpen, fine-liners, & watercolour ink on Himalayan lokta paper #art #ink #watercolour

ink drawing on textured handmade paper - it evokes tree branches and an abstract human-esque unfinished looking being at the centre

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 23

Pea-cow

Avi in Montreal with a street mural of a cow whose midsection becomes a peacock

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 23

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album cover for "Nocturne (soundtrack for an invisible film) by Avi Engel, featuring a black and white moth and handwritten title + name, white background, minimalist design

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 21

"act a fool"

Avi poses under a giant painted mural of the fool tarot card in a Montreal sidestreet

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 15

🚄

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 13

I'm on @subvert.fm 🙌 www.subvert.fm/aviengel

Photo of Avi with guitar in front of a gnarled tree with the text "Subvert is now live/Avi Engel is a co-owner of Subvert. Join us. Followed by url https://www.subvert.fm/aviengel

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 11

👋 new (free) post every week on Patreon: www.patreon.com/aviengel

Selfie of Avi wearing a black shirt, window in the background

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 4

Quincy & Pym catching some rays ☀️

Avi Engel@aviengel· May 3

Brush pen & fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #nature #gothic #weirdart

ink drawing on textured handmade paper, features an ambiguous root bodied being with a protruding bird

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 27

tree specs

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 22

One year since Pym had a surgery that we weren't sure he'd recover from, but ended up being life-saving. Grateful for every day with this small weird guy 😍 #guineapig #cavy

Tricolour abyssinian guinea pig peeks out from a pink fleece pocket

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 20

in my happy place, at a menacing angle

Photo of Avi on a nature trail, they are shot from below & looking a bit severe

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 18

Conjuror Brush pen, fine-liners, and various inks on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #artbyhumans #humanartist #inkart

ink drawing on handmade paper - features a central human-esque figure with animal and abstract forms emerging from them

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 17

growing roots brush pen and fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #ink #bugs #psychedelic #minimalist #artsky

minimalist ink drawing on textured paper of a human and bug-like critter with roots sprouting from their feet

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 15

Oh hi

Weird and not at all realistic ceramic hedgehog in a shop window

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 9

chronos bird brush pen and fine-liner pens on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #artsky #birds #botany #originalart #ink #brushpen #artbyhumans #artist #psychedelic #flowers

ink drawing of a bird whose body is made up of sprouting flowers, some of which have petals shaped like bird heads

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 7

Black-capped chickadee eats unsalted sunflower seeds from a human hand

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 7

Visited some friends recently

White breasted nuthatch eating unsalted sunflower seeds from a human hand

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 6

15 free downloads of my album "Mote" 5uty-63ts b5zy-kxul wrtz-kqaj smnk-693y pbak-kzhf kjvp-e79z k9b8-3e66 ktx3-cu8k zke5-x5u9 zy6f-vraz ztyx-gsug yzkj-ulau yyz8-ejrp 3ttt-3gcn azzy-hu4e site to redeem: aviengel.bandcamp.com/yum #art #chambermusic #bandcamp #cosmic #existential #acoustic #poetry

cover art of Mote by Avi Engel: photo of a nebula-like sea anemone creature, softly illuminated centre frame, image bordered by darkness

Avi Engel@aviengel· Apr 4

The Mountain Moves Brush pen and fine-liners on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #ink #inkart #artsky #artbyhumans #mountains #forests #nature

black ink drawing on handmade paper that depicts a mountainside with a face, a bird flying into its mouth, and bare trees sprouting from its head. there is a lot of flowing texture

Avi Engel@aviengel· Mar 28

seafoam conundrum brushpen, fine-liners, & watercolour on Himalayan Lokta paper #art #artbyhumans #inkart #artsky #wabisabi

abstract ink drawing on handmade Tibetan paper - a human face and a dog-like creature are discernible - lots of black ink texture + aqua flourishes as well

Avi Engel@aviengel· Mar 27

The energy I bring to a task remains unchanged 👽