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Too many things to do today. Too many projects half-started, semi-finished, due, overdue, pending, and promised. Yesterday, rather than do any of things I should have been doing I read a book for most...

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Grand Animal

The taxi driver refused to go any further. In the dream I was staying in a hotel on Spadina near College and wanted to go shopping further down towards Dundas, in the deep and winding medieval streets,...

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Working on Art

For a month or two I’ve been inviting friends over for dinner, wining and dining them into the night, and, when they’re relaxed and off-guard, I lure them up to my room, blinking and confused, and...

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Expressing

There was a mess. The mess needed space. A place to make mess. A place to put messy things all over the floors and the walls and any surface I can reach stretching on tippy-toes on top of the chair....

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Deep dreams

A large, hot, breathy, needy animal in the bed with me – powerful, emotional, childish, grabby. So close, as if I couldn’t quite see it. A horse? Waking up, stretching, catching the tendrils of the...

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Enveloped in Mess

A couple of weeks ago I moved out of the studio. In the last stretch even the studio itself was barely manoeuvrable, it was so filled with paints and art blocks, papers and tape and stencils and...

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Broken Rock Face

Friday afternoons are sketching class – the best day of the week. Each week we go to a different location, a park somewhere close by, in the ‘hood, and set up to draw whatever presents itself. This...

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Marks

Shy, tentative marks on the page, trying to remember how to draw – oh I used to do this all the time, it was so easy decades ago… It is a re-entry into pure eye to hand communication, all visceral...

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Honesty vs Admiration

The tourists are beginning to return to the city, and if I leave the studio door open to get a bit of a cross breeze with the window, occasionally a lost meandering tourist will make their way to the...

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