Standing our ground and recognizing a broader horizon
Applied science in its most productive form requires a commitment to acknowledging – and communicating – difficult realities about contentious…
October 24, 2024
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Glass Plate Negatives
After some research in the B.C. archives, Trudi found a photograph of the exterior of the studio building at 562…
The Artist Studio: Disappearances and reappearances
Sunday, November 1. The Artist Studio: Disappearances and reappearances, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi Lynn Smith…
The Long Exposure: Duration, meditation and the un-archivable
Saturday, October 24. The Long Exposure: Duration, meditation and the un-archivable, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi…
1:1 (25 minutes) Reciprocity: The large camera and the studio wall
Saturday, October 17. Reciprocity: The large camera and the studio wall, is one of three ‘open studio’ events that Trudi…
Hannover Merzbau (1923)
Part of my attraction to the work is that it could not survive, and now only exists in relatively few…
Saturnidae
I was reading W.G. Sebald’s, The Rings of Saturn, and came across a passage where he speaks of two Persian…
Medardo Rosso
After completing a portrait of a child of the Mond family in 1906 Rosso stopped making sculpture completely. Most scholars…
Passing Comments
people don’t want to look at dark and depressing photographs, you need to make something more cheerful you should wear…
Meditation on the Studio Wall
During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall…
Celestographs
They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky….
The Absence of the Origin of its Likeness
We face the imperative to understand anew today what it might mean for photography to “move beyond representation.” (Hito Steyerl…
The Studio
At present my studio is a building behind my house. I also share a studio with Trudi Lynn Smith at…
Two Works That Caught my Attention This Week
Over the past week I encountered two works that caught my attention. One was during a critique session at UVic…
Laurie Anderson
I came upon this in Laurie Anderson’s essay Time and Beauty. IS SOME ART MORE BUDDHIST THAN OTHER ART? A…
Sculpting the Immaterial: The Fundamental Impermanence of All Things
I consider Morandi in his bedroom, painting images of bottles in Bologna while fascists take hold of Italy and think…
Ho Tam Press Gallery
Installation in progress. Source Contemporary artist
February 02, 2023
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Next steps for Project TEACH
Project TEACH was co created by Raincoast and the Coexisting with Carnivores Alliance (CwCA) in the winter of 2021, whose…
