Junk buildings
With the Northern Junk development back in the news in September, I checked to see if the proposal had any…
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…
Enforcing ‘community’ through Block Watch
Victoria Council will continue to fund displacement in the name of community-building in 2021. The city’s defensive architecture guidelines don’t…
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…
VicPD “crime watch” volunteers are watching licence plate stickers
My last post was about VicPD and the city bringing Block Watch policing into neighbourhoods under the guise of community…
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…
VicPD drug seizure and arrest data
Last year I filed several Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with VicPD. Two of those FOIs were modeled directly off…
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…
“Contact with a police vehicle”
On December 21, 2018, VicPD put out a press release with the headline “Witnesses sought after assault with a weapon.”…
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…
