I like to sit on the floor usually 
















Partners in Art and Life
Caleb Witvoet + Sophia Lengle



1997

Caleb, born March 18, Calgary, AB

Sophia, born Oct 4, Edmonton, AB

Edmonton and Calgary are rival cities


2016

Sophia wins scholarship in student art 

competition to attend AUArts and moves to Calgary

Caleb decides to apply to art school on a whim and makes his portfolio in 10 days

Caleb and Sophia meet in art history Visual Arts 110: Survey I (Liberal Studies) and are smitten immediately

They begin drawing, painting and designing together


2017

They design and build the citrus couch

Caleb declares jewellery major

Sophia declared fibre major


2019

They go on exchange together to the Maine College of Art


2020

They graduate with honours from AUArts and move to Edmonton where they renovate a house together


2021

Sophia travels to Iceland for a textile residency


2022

Caleb has his first solo exhibition, in Ottawa at the L.A. Pari Gallery

Caleb is accepted into the Masters of Artistic Research program at KABK in Den Haag

Sophia is accepted into the Master of Fine Arts program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam

Caleb proposes to Sophia on a rooftop terrace in Rome and she says yes

Sophia and Caleb wed amongst friends and  family in the Edmonton River valley August 11





















Caleb’s Desk














Esther M. Wafula
photopoetry






































Esther M. Wafula is a Kenyan poet whose scholarly interests include exploring the power of writing, particularly poetry writing, for personal transformation. Her autoethnographic chapter “Turning Water into Wine: An Innovative Way of Overcoming Stress Through Poetry” was published by Springer in 2019.

Esther also enjoys writing poems in response to photographs, a topic she presented on at the Creative Bridges Conference convened by Lapidus International in 2021. Some of her photopoems have recently been published in the article Deep Calls to Deep: Photopoetry as a Process of Call and Response in the LIRIC Journal Volume 2 Issue 2:  https://lapidus.org.uk/liric-journal-new-issue
Copyright 2023 Sophia Lengle