For the past year, Toronto artist Nicholas Di Genova has been slaving away in his studio preparing works for an upcoming solo exhibition at a Parisian gallery called Dukan et Hourdequin. When we say slaving, we really mean it. This artist works so hard that major hedge funds are wagering he is going to go blind by the age of 40 resulting in skyrocketing prices of his finely rendered drawings. Now that he is in the final stretch before his show in Paris, Di Genova has gone to the mattresses, holed up in his west-end studio for the final 90 day push.

Over the past couple of years, Di Genova's works have gone macro and micro simultaneously. They've grown in size in that the sheets he is working on border on epic yet the imagery he is busting onto those sheets have shrunk to allow for each work to offer thousands and thousands of individually rendered animals hatched from the artist's vivid imagination and fine pointed ink pens.