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Awkward family moment informs art-making aesthetic

Awkward family moment informs art-making aesthetic

When I first started out as a suburban-newspaper reporter I had a single original artwork tacked to the wall in my basement suite. It was a life-sized acrylic-on-paper, a nude holding her maybe-pregnant belly against a landscape of spewing factories and...
work-in-progress ‘Unbridled’ stitches up pain and pleasure

work-in-progress ‘Unbridled’ stitches up pain and pleasure

Exploring tattoo tropes (Carlyn Yandle photo) Thirty years ago this month I floated down the aisle in a pearly silk dress. Recently I pulled this relic out of deep storage to give it new life.It is a ballerina-length A-line number, a fitted silhouette of crisp,...