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.
May 22, 2015
Playing with mud — and new/old ideas
Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well as about collaborative...
May 15, 2015
From disaster to ‘Discomforter’: 5 lessons learned
There is really no way to know whether a blanket covered in brightly coloured buttons will read until the very end of all the work so I wanted to build in the likelihood of failure. That's how I came...
May 8, 2015
twentysomethings’ bedrooms a compelling grad show work
What I’d really like to see is a ‘realitylink’: an aggregate site devoted to photo tours of real Vancouver homes where people actually live, cook, eat, sleep, play, fight, have babies, raise...
May 1, 2015
Street art saves us from a Pretty empty city
The alienating effect of walking by blocks of empty homes is seen in the writing on the wall. It is there in the masked Spock and other super-hero mashups that adorn the boarded-up exteriors of...
Apr 24, 2015
Time is ripe for Occupy Neighbourhood movement
And yet. And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between, beyond, behind, or otherwise outside the scope of authority....
Apr 17, 2015
Public art tour by bike all part of the velorution
There is a symbiotic relationship between art and cycling. For me, I don’t get to work/play in the studio if I don’t get on my bike, and I don’t get my daily dose of hard-pumping exercise if...
Apr 10, 2015
Epiphany: the studio is a workspace, not a salon
There was no getting around it -- literally. After a few weeks away from the studio I arrived viewing it with fresh yet loathsome eyes. There was no room to move here, let alone swing a cat. It...
Apr 3, 2015
When words fail to describe form, make up new ones
There is not a coffee shop in town where two people, heads almost touching as if in shared prayer, aren’t focused on one pocket-sized screen. Sometimes one of those people is me, in answer to an...
Mar 27, 2015
Who says sculpture has no business in business?
I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions. There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects...
Mar 20, 2015
The power of fiber seen in the corridors of power
When I see the debate raging around women wearing the hajib (head scarf) or niqab (cloth covering the face) in Canada, I think about the male gaze . The latest controversy surrounds the...
