Maureen O'Connor is a fine art photographer living in Toronto and is a graduate of OCAD. A life-long animal lover, her current series Threshold is produced with the cooperation of local sanctuaries. The animals in these images were brought and photographed onsite to the location seen in the photographs. Many of these animals are rescues from fur farms and others are non-releasable wildlife living at caring animal sanctuaries. Many of the locations are homes in Toronto pre-redevelopment or renovation. By photographing Canadian animals in abandoned and crumbling domestic architecture, Maureen O’Connor raises questions about how nature and the built environment intersect. She sees these spaces as transformative, evoking memory and showing the beauty and fragility of the animals and the architecture. We are invited to cross the threshold and imagine new narratives where the natural world and the domestic world meet, and consider how this informs our identity in a country defined by both its wild landscape and its orderly cities.