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.
Feb 21, 2013
Big ideas behind chit-chat format
As much as I would like to believe I have enough focus to while away an evening at an art or design lecture, my attention span is... this keyboard is filthy. What was I saying? Our hyper-accelerated...
Feb 15, 2013
Power struggles embedded in newspaper photos
Venerable city newspaper reporter John Mackie has an eye for old things Vancouver . He was intrinsic in the broad-daylighting of Fred Herzog ’s mid-century images, and more recently he has given...
Feb 8, 2013
Out of analysis and into the mystic
I do so love a shit-disturber , whether it’s fearless Middle-East reporter/author Robert Fisk ripping apart mainstream media last Saturday night downtown or the venerable art critic Jan Verwoert at...
Feb 1, 2013
You can’t keep a good maker down
My mother might remember this: as a kid, I once declared that I could handle a stint in jail, because I would spend the time dressing up the place by making decorations out of any old bits and...
Jan 25, 2013
A creative solution to a hoardy habit
This would be the sequel to the New Year’s resolution post a couple of weeks back, in which I vowed to part ways with years of art projects from past classes and phases, and future artworks that...
Jan 18, 2013
Big crush in a small art town
It’s a quandary , going to a commercial-gallery show opening for the likes of Important Canadian Artist Attila Richard Lukacs . I’m a short person and this is a small art town, which means I end...
Jan 10, 2013
That’s not clutter; that’s future artwork. Maybe
My New Year’s resolution this year is D&D: Divest and Dance. The idea is that if I clear some space by divesting myself of my art stuff I’ll have more room to dance. Or maybe it was: I'll be...
Jan 4, 2013
Creative collaboration takes physical feats to new heights
I got the gift of a visual feast for Christmas: a date to see some performance-art mastery by Cirque du Soleil. And it was no less a sensory experience than the first show I saw when Alegria debuted...
Dec 28, 2012
Painting like no one is watching
Painting feels a lot like grasping for words to me. There’s general comprehension there, thanks to some study, but I don’t have enough command of my own visual language to express myself with...
Dec 21, 2012
Seasonal spectacle lights up the senses
Art is in the everyday, even at the Van Dusen Gardens on another miserable rainy night last week. There's no narrative in those hundreds of thousands of LED coloured lightbulbs strung through the...
