Museums and Studios
Studios are for making more paintings. Museums are for making sense of the paintings we already have. Studios are for dedicated consistent generative work. Work that involves turning paintings upside...
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Announcing The Crazy Insane Arboreal Photo Contest WINNER!
Arno Apeldoorn’s photo is the winning entry in The Crazy Insane Arboreal Photo Essay Contest sponsored by Broken Wing Media. Honourable mention goes to John Santic and Haley Holtslander. Thanks to...
View ArticlePoetry
Yesterday I learned I’ve been short listed as a finalist in The Word Guild Awards for a poem published in Crux Magazine earlier this year. Not everyone could get their hands of a copy of Crux, and a...
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We flirt with eternity.
I sat down with John Santic, a friend who’s working out what it means to have an artist’s heart in the 9 to 5 workplace. Maybe you’re in the same struggle. How do you go about doing the work you do and...
View ArticleHammer time.
A system is simply a way of doing things. A furniture-building-system is as much a thing as the furniture that gets made by the system. A system is a useful tool. A system noun-ifies the world in order...
View ArticleHomer’s Integrity
I’m most creative when I’m working from a place of integrity. Integrity is when I claim the broken parts of myself and the good parts of myself equally as mine. When I hold, or integrate, the broken...
View ArticleYour Life Is An Ecosystem
How about this for 2015? My life is an ecosystem, not a factory. It’s not just true for me, or just for artists, poets and meaning makers, it’s true for everyone. It’s a meta enough metaphor that lots...
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Darth Vader Would Have Brewed Crappy Beer
The Galactic Empire was all about conformity, standardization and efficiency. Efficiency makes for crappy beer. Darth Vader would have made crappy beer. Bow to Darth Vader and his cult of efficiency...
View ArticleI think I can make stir fry.
We make meaning by making something of our world. Making stir fry is making something of the world. Making stir fry makes meaning. Pretty awesome, hey? Our meaning making may start in our minds or...
View ArticlePublic Utterances / #1
Public Utterances / #1 Hasting & Princess. July 2015, 17:34 “I feel like going downtown and fucking killing forty of ‘em, if I had a gun I’d fucking do it…” Public Utterances / #1 A...
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