Musings on the process of creating art
I started this in childhood, running outside, bare feet on the grass. The feeling is much more intense as I age, especially since having cancer 20 years ago – wow, I say, another day to enjoy, so precious! I recently read Anne Carson’s narrative poem “Autobiography of Red”. Carson’s work Read more…
I haven’t been writing any blog posts for a few weeks now, but I have been working. I’ve been out with the camera shooting, sometimes at night. Editing for my front yard tiny gallery and for submission to various exhibitions. Reading things like Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being to seek Read more…
A few years ago, a group exhibition that I regularly participate in posed the theme of “Essential Ingredient” and I prepared a collage from two images: a grainy photo of earthquake damage in Turkey in 1999, and a digital image of some new manufactured housing in USA in 2011 as Read more…
Wonder why this 2018 piece is called “Waiting for Pink Umbrella”? Across the road from this site is Sugar Beach, an urban park featuring permanent pink beach umbrellas and muskoka chairs in sand overlooking the water. 130 QQE has its own pink umbrellas in a small parkette to the west Read more…