The house Massey grew up in was designed by his father in the manner of the renowned modernist architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Originally produced in 1982 in 16mm film, this triptych details a real time conversation between the artist and a hitchhiker he picked up in Southern Ontario.
As he converses with a hitchhiker, the screens alternate between images of the landscape, the driver and his passenger, and stock footage shots of the things they talk about.
[9] In 2014, artist Will Kwan produced a work entitled If All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail, replacing Massey and his hitchhiker with a White real estate agent and an Asian home-buyer as the passenger as they travel to visit prospective homes for sale, driving from a suburban neighbourhood in Markham, Ontario.
The opening image in his photographic suite shows a replica of Massey's Toronto studio with its filing cabinets, work table, stool and ladder to a loft.
The interior and exterior components were separately photographed in great detail by using a large-format camera and then digitally combined, resulting in hyperrealistic imagery.
Massey built a scale model of the apartment, shot each of its nine rooms, and configured his pictures with motifs from the film, including its strong primary colours and distinct lighting.
"[16][17] Black on White is a series of six prints of digitally scanned collages consisting of words: letters, numbers, punctuation marks bursting from a blank background.
The works begin with individual words and photographs found in books, magazines and period films which are meticulously hand-cut from black paper and arranged on a white surface.Each of these is produced as an edition of three archival digital prints mounted on disband with one artist's Proof .