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Art trumps ads by just a whisper

Art trumps ads by just a whisper

They say if you want someone’s attention, whisper. Or maybe that was just a line from a Whisper pantyhose commercial back in the ’70s.Whispering to get attention isn’t easy in an image-packed urban landscape where slick marketing messages infiltrate...
More strange bedfellows: quilts and graffiti

More strange bedfellows: quilts and graffiti

This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years:  blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. 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...
A childhood of risky business inspires

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 is it. Long before he pushed the physical limits of the human...
That’s one mother of another need met

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 be stopped and reversed. Now. Because even though I had no...