old buildings, plants, and animals.

the natural history museum in Strasbourg, France. we saw the most amazing little show of paintings here as well - i will post some of the scans from her exhibition book

looking towards the Black Forest of Germany...i didn't mind the fog...

driving the route de vin

oh i wish i owned this little store...i will put up some pictures of the beautiful fabrics she had as well...

catch up...

Ok - so part of the reason I want to do this, is to practice editing, practice writing, and to attempt to just put something out there without constantly worrying about whether i still feel that way or not and just stick to it. So if you are one of the few poor souls reading this (!) then I am going to be putting up old stuff...kind of re-visiting the year...and then using this space as an incentive to keep working. I figure if it exists, then I'll do my best to show up, and hopefully I'll learn to speak more articulately about artwork (without sounding like an asshole), and find ways to connect that to the other creative aspects of living. I'm interested in figuring out what ways i can combine all of my different interests into something that makes sense to me. I'm interested in archives - and what ends up being lost in the process, so this will be a practice at my own. Obviously this is a fairly self-absorbed endeavor...but maybe it will turn into more of a relationship with other artists, and a place where i can exchange ideas...

Drawing

I've been doing a lot of drawing lately. Partly because I've been working in a collective with Katherine Coe and Rosanne Bennet, called Beautiful Frontier. It has been this great process where I get to make things again - something I miss when I'm taking photographs. I think that's why building sets in photography appeals to me. We recently did an installation at Mountainview Cemetary. The installation was a lantern memorial for people in British Columbia's past who were on the 'outsides' of society: people who had spent time in institutions such as Woodlands, Essondale, and the BC Penitentiary.

I made Caleb into a sleepy bear for a little show out in Ontario I was part of. I ended up using sandpaper to rough it up a little, but in the end wished I hadn't. Oh well!

Caleb and Ruby learning flight patterns.

Again...I wish I hadn't messed with them. They were also kind of sparkly...so they looked like pictures inspired by galaxy exploration.

One of the drawings in my sketchbook for the Art House Co op Sketchbook project. It's quite a bit darker here than in REAL LIFE. My book's theme was 'Revenge'. Rosanne was part of this too...I'll put a link to her work once I get it.