Sky Lines investigates the impact of vernacular residential architecture on various Montréal neighbourhoods. Here I employ photography to remove individual structures from their specific contexts within the city, thereby emphasizing the physical characteristics of each facade. This isolation is achieved through framing buildings as severed from the ground, as well as cutting and repositioning photos and overlapping negatives to construct a fragmented image. When separated from their external references these buildings tend to self-animate: some facades are inviting, some overly fussy and ornate, while others appear to have been silenced. High-rise structures built in recent decades are often deliberately evasive and the repetitive geometric patterning of their interchangeable facades is mimicked in standardized home accessories such as window blinds. This work was exhibited at the Centre des arts actuels Skol in 2002.