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Thinking Ahead

Spring is coming, the salmon will be running soon. We are getting excited about our next miniaturized art house project based on Emily Carr’s Elephant, here are our guiding images. Clockwise: Emily Carr’s Elephant (Carr with monkey sitting in doorway); 1900s nuu chah nulth smokehouse, wood stove in Emily Carr’s studio, salmon inside a smokehouse,…

Nelson Joseph : Hupacasath Carver

My research on late Hupacasath carver Nelson Joseph culminated in an exhibition at the Alberni Valley Museum on view from June through September, 2014. Nelson’s work has up to this point been under-recognized, but is illustrative of distinctive Nuu Chah Nulth approaches to carving in addition to having its own unique voice. For the opening,…

The Incredible Story of Jeld-Wen Windows & Doors

The Cardiff-Miller House was made possible by Jeld-Wen Windows & Doors and the kind, connective work of a creative and clever expert, Tessa Hall. Jeld-Wen supported the project not only with beautifully crafted, tiny working windows, but with a remarkable and inspiring leap of faith in working with us. When they arrived, all thirteen windows…

Petra: Words & Images

I’m excited to be part of the project, Drawing the Canada-Wide Science Fair. As I have no experience with science fairs, this will be a unique experience for me. My practice of photography involves drawing. I draw to work through ideas for my photographs. This process helps me visualize my images before they become photographs.…

Drawing the Canada-Wide Science Fair : Cindy Baker

Drawing the Canada-Wide Science Fair is a collective of sixteen artists who have come together to interpret and play with the spectacle of a national science fair through visual language. By drawing on-site during the Canada-Wide Science Fair, the artists will create and immediately broadcast drawings of selected projects on display. The idea is to expand the notion of drawing around science…

Commenters Without Borders

Fascinated by the backlash to mainstream media’s tolerance of racist commentary on their platforms. Finally! Today seemed to hit a breaking point when the Nanaimo Daily News published an ignorant, intolerant letter by Doug Olsen. Sensationalism at the cost of civil dialogue, editorship and fact-checking. Newsflash: local paper readers are global citizens, even if the…

The Visible Spectrum

Today I had a breakthrough in understanding about how we represent the world, and what needs to change. It’s about expanding the spectrum of what can be studied and captured. It’s like all we can see is the visible spectrum, but there are so many other wavelengths of data. Two things lead to it: –…

Serpendant

The Sea Serpent “Haya-piii-a” is a Supernatural Creature which appears frequently in my work. The Serpent pendant is an ongoing open edition cast in Fine Silver. Each pendant is cast as a blank. Facial features, surface treatment and gem settings are added to each Serpent making each one original. Each pendant measures 3 1/4 ”…

Searching for a Reason

This is a freight ship currently taking on cargo on the waterfront in Port Alberni B.C. It is being loaded with thousands of logs cut from second (or third) growth plantings, probably fir and hemlock. Many years ago, the logging companies planted these trees after clear cut logging large swaths of Vancouver Island. The trees…

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