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Exhibit of a great mistake was just the push I needed

Exhibit of a great mistake was just the push I needed

Vancouver-based creative force Omer Arbel and Monte Clark teamed up to embrace the power of happy accidents (Carlyn Yandle photo) Last week Monte Clark gave four of us some insight into how an experiment by Omer Arbel went awry and ended up as a dazzling installation...
3 artworks a day for 5 days — and an extra challenge

3 artworks a day for 5 days — and an extra challenge

Vancouver artist Connie Sabo threw the current Facebook challenge (three artworks a day for five days) to me this week. I’m taking on the challenge for the chance to create three art experimentations per day, as opposed to sharing three artworks on each of those...
Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
The unfathomable drives next generation of artists

The unfathomable drives next generation of artists

Detail from Emily Carr Masters student Duobaitis’ ink on board work, ‘(re) formatting’, 2014. How we’re feeling about our place in an uncertain world is evident on art school walls.This is where the next generation of emerging artists grapples...
Just a bad craft? Time and techonology will tell

Just a bad craft? Time and techonology will tell

I’m posting this picture because if I don’t do it now I might cram this doomed project into a green garbage bag and stuff it where the sun don’t shine: in deep storage. I’ve seen through some fraught, laborious projects in my time but I may...