I’ve been printing, folding, cutting, stapling, and gluing Issue 2 of my zine Casue & Effect. Issue 2 is called Sabotage and features a conversation and email on the topic of loneliness. The tone is much different from Issue 1 as participants bring their own experience of social isolation. Both…
This week, I was out Monday and Thursday offering my type-writing services and I promised a third date on the weekend but unfortunately it won’t happen as I am nursing a cold. This Thursday I was at Grandview Park on Commercial Drive. I chatted with a few people and also…
Hello Everyone! I am so pleased to invite you to join me at True Connect* * a free community service helping you write a note to someone in your life or to your future self. Take a seat with me at a public venue. I’ll have my typewriter, note paper…
Dayanita Singh (an artist born and living in India) said “I think I feel at a dead end with photography in a traditional way. ” That sentiment lead her to her practice of combining photography and literature within the book format. In Defining Contemporary Art, Hans Ulrich Obrist describes her…
A few things to report since I launched the Cause & Effect Project (but which I realized I actually refer to as the loneliness project when I talk to people): A friend bought a copy of issue 1 and asked if she could also distribute her copy; my response “abosolutely!”;…
I’ve just added a new project to my online portfolio. It’s called “Cause & Effect” and takes the shape of a zine (a DIY produced small magazine). It is a gift-card size zine made from one sheet of paper. The sheet is folded enough times to produce 16 pages. The…
A few weeks ago I started playing around with paper and paint to generate some ideas for a contemporary fabric quilt. I had a 5 x 5 inch accordion journal that I made last year, so I started working in this with the idea that the whole journal would be…
Technological Infiltration is a new media piece I created while I was taking a collage course at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. It is a 53-second audio piece about government, the future, and fear. In this course I explored collage not as a technique of cutting and pasting…
It’s pretty neat to see your work in a book. Two years ago I responded to a call for art journal pages to be included in a book. I think it was in 2014 when I got the news that 5 of my images would be included. I think I…
Hello, it’s been a while since I’ve popped in here. Last September I began my visual art studies at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, so that has kept me quite busy. I am exploring new directions in my work which is reflected in the addition of my 7-day…