MAKING STUFF
and writing about it
A record of the making and the learning along the way: process, material, and the social side of hand-making.
Jul 19, 2013
Free store in Vancouver — finally!
I've been thinking for a long time that Vancouver needs a Free Store , just like the most popular 'retail' store on the Gulf Island of Lasqueti . And now there it is, inside the old vault of a...
Jul 12, 2013
Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking
All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country -- city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
Jul 5, 2013
A childhood of risky business inspires
My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he'll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic...
Jun 28, 2013
Unlikely grounds for painting needles at convention
Having spent the last several years taking painting into sculpture and sculpture into painting , I fell in love with the Saddle Up! group art show that wrapped up last week at Hot Art Wet City...
Jun 21, 2013
You can’t keep a good artist down
You might have heard the hammering this week of the final nail in the coffin of a well-known cartoonist's career with the Province newspaper. After more than 30 years, Bob Krieger joined the legions...
Jun 14, 2013
Stumped again by basic rules of composition
It's funny how some learning moments can be instantly locked into your hard drive forever while others will keep smacking you in the face, like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes. I look forward to the...
Jun 7, 2013
That’s one mother of another need met
In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C. It's the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand that the car we're in...
May 31, 2013
Sanitary Doily gets its 15 minutes
I'm deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city's sanitary sewer covers for the next...
May 24, 2013
Thinking outside the rain barrel
I can barely remember this city before community gardens. They're so integral to my neighbourhood, and I don't even have a plot of my own. Aside from the obvious benefit of providing people ways to...
May 17, 2013
Sticking it to The Man sticks with me
Touring the Emily Carr University graduation show (aka The Show) can be exhausting. There’s work by more than 300 grads packed into those halls and classrooms — too much to take in just one...
