After some research in the B.C. archives, Trudi found a photograph of the exterior of the studio building at 562…

Sunday, November 1. The Artist Studio: Disappearances and reappearances, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi Lynn Smith…

Saturday, October 24. The Long Exposure: Duration, meditation and the un-archivable, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi…

Saturday, October 17. Reciprocity: The large camera and the studio wall, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi…

Part of my attraction to the work is that it could not survive, and now only exists in relatively few…

I was reading W.G. Sebald’s, The Rings of Saturn, and came across a passage where he speaks of two Persian…

After completing a portrait of a child of the Mond family in 1906 Rosso stopped making sculpture completely. Most scholars…

people don’t want to look at dark and depressing photographs, you need to make something more cheerful you should wear…

During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall…

They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky….

We face the imperative to understand anew today what it might mean for photography to “move beyond representation.” (Hito Steyerl…

Despite our strategies to bridge the visual ‘gap’ between the photograph and the thing being photographed, that distance stubbornly remains….

At present my studio is a building behind my house. I also share a studio with Trudi Lynn Smith at…

Over the past week I encountered two works that caught my attention. One was during a critique session at UVic…

I came upon this in Laurie Anderson’s essay Time and Beauty. IS SOME ART MORE BUDDHIST THAN OTHER ART? A…

I consider Morandi in his bedroom, painting images of bottles in Bologna while fascists take hold of Italy and think…

Scanning through the Ikebana section of the university library I came upon this book: Rikka: The Soul of Japanese Flower…

Curly willow or tortured willow, corkscrew willow, Salix matsudana ‘Tortusa’Dianthus caryophyllus, carnation Equisetum, (; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) Laurus nobilis…

A curator working on research for a craft exhibition drew my attention to an image he had uncovered on the…

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