The last line of Canty’s poem, Fig.10 installation says, “10 Red Shift. Le rougeoiement du soir dans l’est.”. Translated it means the glow of the night in the east. There is a book call “Meridin de sang: Ou le rougeoiment du soir dans l’Ouest.", translated meaning the glow of the night in the West by Cormac McCarthy. There is a chance that Canty maybe referenced to this book resuming about the 1850s, a 14-year-old boy left Texas to join a band of paid hunters to exterminate the Indians. In the middle of the desert, the law no longer exists. In this game of massacre, only survive those who manage to awaken the deepest and most intimate savagery. Where the Boulevard Saint-Laurent remains today a symbolic division between the Anglophone and allophone
