Word Of The Day

tetch.y (adjective)
Read more

The Sound of Music

Something I’ve been working on while I’ve been absent from my post (sorry, pun just happened, couldn’t be helped) is honing my musical adroitness. Seeing as I didn’t really have much to begin with, there can only be room for improvement. Those kind of odds appeal to me.
Read more

Utterly Inflexible

Every time I go to yoga I am shamefully reminded about the results I scored during a flexibility test on a recent trip to Science World.
Read more

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Oh, wait a minute, that’s poetry – teen poetry.
Read more

Leonardo Gets A New Coat

Or at least a pocket.
Read more

Thrown Out On A Technicality

If I’m using a Whitney Museum of American Art bag to line my studio garbage pail…
Read more

Go See This

Friend and artist Sharon Kallis, and her artist-arm-candy Mr. Fire-Man, picked me up en route to Richmond tonight for the opening of Fibred Optics at the Richmond Art Gallery.
Read more

Low Rider

These jeans are literally perched on this dude’s bottom limits. What keeps them from sliding down?
Read more

Dog Write

Today I came across some notes I had been saving. They were from Elvis.
Read more

Jaw-Clencher

I know I do it when I’m working in the studio, concentrating and focused.
Read more

Image Maker vs. Object Maker

We live in a world devoted to the image, both hardcopy and virtual, static and fluid.
Read more

Diary Awe

You’ll find the darndest things when you do an intensive clean. For instance, you might find your grade 7 diary.
Read more

The Hardest Part of Art Is Letting Go

Purging is harder than I thought it would be. Emotionally, I mean.
Read more

Now You See It

…soon you won’t. I’m doing an intensive studio purge right now, getting rid of old, dried up paint and supplies I haven’t been using.

Here are some of the supplies I’ve been storing (some of it I haven’t touched for twenty years):
Read more

Wish I Had Thought Of It First

My dear friend Tzaddi (who is super awesome because she always takes the time to send excellent info my way) sent me the link for a recent TED talk by artist Shea Hembrey. I think I’m in love.
Read more

Ms. Interpretation

I love the unexpected results that I sometimes get from site searches. Take, for example, my recent Vancouver Public Library online catalogue search on the subject of “small game hunting”.
Read more

iFesto

Who needs a manifesto you say? Everyone, that’s who! Even people who feel like they don’t have the gumption to compose a manifesto should write one.
Read more

New Balance

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what my ideal studio routine would be. The norm usually involves all creative play and no admin, or all admin and no creative play. Neither situation is ideal – when I am totally engrossed in admin I have pangs of guilt that I am not spending any time on creative play, and vice versa.
Read more

The Whale Has [Been] Landed

Here’s the completely overbuilt window “frame” Andrew and I manufactured for Moby the air conditioner:
Read more

Thar She Blows!

Or she would, if she was in the window.  Gentle reader, meet my Moby Dick:
Read more

Bring Back That Lovin’ Feeling

Now that I’m all BFA’d and my job-as-hobby schedule has been lightened, I have the exciting and anxiety-ridden task of rekindling the relationship with my studio.
Read more