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On Friday February 14th 2015, William saw Celeste across a hometown bar. They barely exchanged more than a few words, but 10 numbers were all it took to begin this story.

Celeste, having studied at OCADU, specialized in Drawing and Painting. They shared long nights walking the city streets with William as they discussed books, art, music, film and all the other stuff inspiration is made of.

One of their first dates and photos together was taken in 2 Forms by Henry Moore. You get the picture.

William’s background in cultural studies gave him a broad base of knowledge, constantly filling in the gaps of philosophy, sociology and art history.

Over the years they have spent living together in Toronto they taught each other what the other didn’t already know, sometimes overlapping and yapping far into long nights, and sun drenched mornings.

On Sunday February 14th 2021 during a COVID lockdown, they made turned Henry Moore’s 2 Forms, housed in Grange Park behind the AGO, into their church and alter. Their marriage shared with only 10 of their closest family and friends, and over 50 strangers who stopped to watch their matrimony on that sunny cold winter morning.

Inspired by Love, in 2023 they decided to bring Celeste’s love for pottery into their home after years of her biking to the local studio whenever she could get a spot in a class.

Celeste first touched clay onto a wheel in high school, luckily her art teacher was a master potter, with a wicked studio that she got full reign of in the last two years her school offered it. Without this introduction, she may have never discovered her natural talent for an art form that until only recently was slowly withering away. This stuck as a big part of their lives, a resounding respect for education and the play needed to fully realize our deepest most fulfilling abilities.