Introducing MY VIEW, YOUR? : When Perspectives Collide

This November, Ọ̀KẸ́ is rolling out something truly special. Our upcoming art exhibition, "MY VIEW, YOUR?" We invite you to step into a space where perspectives meet, collide, and intertwine. Through landscape, architecture, and emotion, five artists explore how we see the world — and how your view completes the story.

What happens when your view meets mine? Every piece in this exhibition reflects an artist's personal lens, their stories, emotions, and experience captured on canvas, lens, or in sculpture. In "MY VIEW, YOUR?" the question mark is intentional. It is an invitation. The real conversation begins when you add yours.

This environmental art exhibit will feature landscape & architecture-inspired works from five diverse artists, each bringing their unique vision of architecture and landscapes, not only as physical spaces but as reflections of personal experience.

The exhibit name, "MY VIEW, YOUR?" plays on the idea of seeing through someone else’s eyes, raising questions about perception, place, and personal connection to our environment. This exhibition seeks to bridge the audience’s own memories and experiences with the artists' interpretations of landscape, inspiring dialogue about identity, belonging, and perspective.

We’re thrilled to present the talented artists featured in this exhibition:

Morph & Matter - Mirabel Ehirim

Mirabel Ehirim is a Nigerian-Canadian ceramic artist and founder of Morph & Matter, a sculptural homeware studio based in Hamilton, Ontario. She works primarily with hand-built stoneware, creating sculptural ceramics that invite touch, spark conversation, and bring emotion into everyday spaces. reimagines everyday objects as sculptural forms that spark curiosity and invite interaction.

Aaron Borchardt

Aaron is an architectural designer and artist based in Toronto, Canada, originally from Denver, Colorado. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, where he lived for three years while studying and working. His work explores the intersection of photography, digital distortion, and abstraction, transforming images through fragmentation and intentional disruption. Each piece reflects a balance between order and chaos, where digital imperfections become tools for discovery.

Shamika Pierre

My name is Shamika Pierre. I am a Toronto-based illustrator, recently graduated from OCADU. The more I develop as an artist, I see illustration as my form of storytelling, and the slow spiral to my energy drink addiction. I focus a lot on the experience of my community, using the beauty and richness of ink and watercolour to let the stories unfold. I love experimenting and challenging myself with difficult ideas and crafting them into my own perspective and experience.

Ola Idris Ali

Ola Idris is a multi-national interdisciplinary artist and political scientist. As a practitioner of written and visual art, she centers care and imagination in her work, intending to reignite curiosity in the possibilities of a better, more interesting world. She sees imagination repair and research as necessary political art practices in her life's work.

Christine Drouin

Christine Drouin is a Canadian photographer with a college degree in photography from Cégep du Vieux Montréal. Guided by curiosity and an instinctive quest for beauty, she captures the unnoticed elegance of the world. Her work explores light, texture, and fleeting moments, revealing atmospheres that evoke emotion and contemplation. Whether in nature or streets, she embraces authenticity, favouring a sincere, unaltered approach. Each image becomes a quiet pause—an invitation to see beyond the ordinary.

As we prepare to open “MY VIEW, YOUR?”, we’re most excited for what happens next — your interaction. Each piece, whether born from love, conflict, reflection, or curiosity, is incomplete without your perspective. This exhibition isn’t just about what’s on the canvas, in the clay, or through the lens — it’s about the exchange that happens when their view meets yours.

We invite you to walk through the space, pause, react, question, and connect — to see where admiration meets discomfort, where love meets challenge, and where art becomes a shared language.

At Ọ̀KẸ́, we believe that every exhibition is a living conversation. “MY VIEW, YOUR?” is our invitation for you to join in — to explore how art can both mirror and reshape the way we see the world we share, ourselves, and each other.