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This blog is usually about my art process & life reflections in the studio & out.
Tuesdays will be posting day.

Category: Painting

a story about what?

Some kind of unknown future retains it’s luster for me. I cannot imagine knowing where I’m going artistically, but often would love to have a firm grip on where I’m going verbally - would love to have a finely tuned knowledgable & articulate brain machine! Not knowing, or...

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Poetry Painting from California

Please Note: California doesn't allow pictures to represent anything remotely negative.  Therefore, pictures automatically edit themselves to remove these aspects.  This beauty belies a ferocious (ch)ill wind.   at one point it seemed as though we were driving into...

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quiet times

Tuesday is the day I regularly post. So today, here I am. I showed up. And I have nothing to say. What I do have is work to do. Work that I am eager to connect to, & move forward on.  And I do have a blog-bone I'm chewing on... a thought bubble, brain static, but not a real word in...

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Postcard

Dear Toronto, I live in you, but Montréal lives in me. Montréal Mon Amour, comme Hiroshima Mon Amour de Marguerite Duras, who I met in this city years ago. She impressed me then, arriving for the Independant Film Festival, older petite woman, slightly hunched, intellectual...

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...but what does it mean?

My show opening was last Thursday evening. Thankfully I was too busy meeting & greeting to answer questions regarding the paintings, having succumbed to blithering idiot-hood by that evening. But the question of meaning & what drives the work came up so here I am blogging an answer...

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Plagiarism

Lifted from Ben Woolfitt’s ‘Thoughts’  'Woolfitt's', an artist run art supply store where I buy just about all my art suppiles in Toronto. Ben Woolfitt, the owner is also an artist. He wrote this on his site & I thought he said what I have thought so...

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Pictures

September 8 (already) Is that your DNA showing, or a blood stain? I await Craig to take pictures. This is the window to everything right now, bizarrely enough . Send out pictures. Upload pictures to website. Make copies of pictures. Burn CDs of pictures. Apply to...

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September as New Year

Yes, the blood in my veins may be Jewish, but as an atheist who grew up in a conflicted secular household, that doesn't explain my deep feelings about September as the beginning of a new year. Life flows in a constant fashion, but there's no denying the specificity of seasonal change....

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