Saturnidae
I was reading W.G. Sebald’s, The Rings of Saturn, and came across a passage where he speaks of two Persian…
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Medardo Rosso
After completing a portrait of a child of the Mond family in 1906 Rosso stopped making sculpture completely. Most scholars…
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Passing Comments
people don’t want to look at dark and depressing photographs, you need to make something more cheerful you should wear…
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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…
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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…
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Celestographs
They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky….
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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…
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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…
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The Studio
At present my studio is a building behind my house. I also share a studio with Trudi Lynn Smith at…
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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…
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Laurie Anderson
I came upon this in Laurie Anderson’s essay Time and Beauty. IS SOME ART MORE BUDDHIST THAN OTHER ART? A…
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“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.”…
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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…
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General occurrence report data highlights systemic racism in B.C. policing
Policing in B.C. is and always has been racist. Here’s some information from an FOI request for six years of…
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Ho Tam Press Gallery
Installation in progress. Source Contemporary artist
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Transit Police continue to target BIPOC people
Metro Vancouver’s Transit Police have always targeted BIPOC people, in particular Black and Indigenous people. This post summarizes FOI data…
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Photodynamic gardening
A project developing open-sourced, cross-pollinated, place-based, more than human photography grounded in listening, tending, working with, and following different plant…
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SIMON & FARFENOUGAN & HUNTER
Limited Edition: 20 copies (+2APs) signed and numbered by the artist. ISBN: 978-0-9736853-8-1 Publication date: June 2009 Size: 14.75” H…
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Parking Lot Pandemic
Parking Lot Pandemic is an artist book created by Jeanne Randolph in conjunction with her exhibition of the same name…
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GROTTO STAR
This is Alexander’s vision of the planet Bruno Taut called “Grotto Star”. Compressing the earth into unique forms, opening up…
