When the white RCMP SUV was spotted cruising around the Maple Street section of the community gardens early Monday morning, it was clear that the chainsaws and earth-movers were next.

Last week Monte Clark gave four of us some insight into how an experiment by  Omer Arbel  went awry and ended up as a dazzling installation in his newish  Monte Clark Gallery .  The heavy,…

Vancouver artist Connie Sabo threw the current Facebook challenge (three artworks a day for five days) to me this week. I’m taking on the challenge for the chance to create three art experimentations…

A couple of weeks back in this space I was musing about the fusing of crocheted granny squares and the ubiquitous breeze-wall bricks of my East Van youth.

One of the biggest lessons learned from a career in newspaper journalism was, surprisingly, the difference between decoration and design. It began when I built up basic layout skills using paper…

As we approach what is arguably the year’s most gaseous weekend  otherwise known as the SuperBowl, with overfed folks lumbering around downtown in painted faces of lurid blue and green, I have just…

This just uploaded…  Six and a half minutes devoted to that question I get a lot: “What’s up with the doilies?” (Video courtesy of   Terry Fox Theatre’s PechaKucha program . More info on the…

Maybe it’s the chilly monochromatic climate at work here, but I’m suddenly wrapping myself up granny squares. The more I think about them, the more potential I see. There’s a lot of culture woven…

I’m writing this as the radio airs a live report of gunfire . The French police have just killed the two brothers who hunted down particular editorial workers at the satirical Paris magazine two days…

A Christmas Day king tide served up some thick snarls of bull kelp and I seized on an idea.