Month: May 2025
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Latest piece in my Openwork series. These have slowed down for me. Or art making as slowed down and these are just where I am right now. The series will finish (at least in this incarnation) soon since I am almost out of the cheap Masonite panels these are made on. Once the series is resolved, I need to document them properly and then I’ll put them up for sale. And then I might make a book with them, not sure yet.
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This morning in the garden. We recently did some work on the bed in the foreground which will eventually be the backdrop for the pond we are digging. We planted a small Japanese Maple that will someday reflect in that future pond. It is strangely life affirming to work at a pace that connects with years ahead of us.
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Neighbours a few house away keep pigeons and we see them some days doing their fast racing loops. There seems to be a pace bird that flies in front and then drops back as they arc to guide the flock into their next loop.
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Here are two videos of the recent beach ephemeral, “Gull”, I made in collaboration with my partner Gayla Trail. Because these are dimensional temporary art works, I like to think of them as existing in many forms at the same time. I try to take photos and video to document them but they often don’t capture what I see/feel/think experiencing them.
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In our previous home in the city, I would take a photo from the rear window most days of the garden behind the house. Those images showed the subtle changes day to day that became broader changes with time. In this home here in a small town, I haven’t kept up the practice mostly because our windows are scratched 1950’s tempered glass and don’t make for clear photos. But I’ve taken it up again because I reminded myself that the practice wasn’t about the clarity or quality of the photos but the act of making a record. I need to…
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Slight work desk reboot. I like a certain degree of chaos in my art making space. I tend to thrive on some level of happenstance in reacting to what’s at hand. But I haven’t been connecting with this work space as much as I would like over the last few months and so I took a few minutes this morning and bit a bit of basic tidying and sorting. It’s enough that I can reset both the desire to make connections and also the facility with which I can make them without becoming overwhelmed.
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It has been a while since I worked on one of these and I especially like when I can create a set of balanced elements that respond to the breeze.
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Zine plotting continues. I made a couple of these mini dummies at half the size of the final zine. Handy for scrawling notes inside to get a sense of content and page sequencing. This zine will be issue 1 in a series based on an idea I had a few years ago. Trying to keep the production scrappy but special — handmade but not backbreaking.