One December I watch videos of a very quiet and wet voice explain the scenery behind the central painting in Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych and it was all very visceral.
I have just moved to Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory. I lazily flirt and meander with imagery and compositions of The Garden of Earthly Delights while I ask my new neighbors to share stories of the place.
It’s a nice way to be new to a town.
Dawson’s Winterly Frights, acrylic, pencil and collage on paper, 60 x 64” 2017.
NB SLASHER FICKS places hypothetical representatives from a New Brunswick corporation into the roles of classic Slasher Flick villians. New Brunswick has something like the highest out-migration in the country and the lowest median income. One corporation and its subsidiaries control that province's forestry, oil and gas industries, as well as owning all of the newspapers on the province. They are painted on OSB wood.
Commissioned by a friend and seaman to create a world where three of his favorite poems would collide:
Netminder, by Jeffrey Donaldson; Warren Pryor by Alden Nowlan; Meditation on Tom Thomson, by Robert Kroetsch
HOLY SHIT MOTHER, acrylic, collage, flies, bumblebees, crucifix, pencils, cigarettes, twine on board, 40 x 50” 2015.
the parents keeping the pencils sharpened and in the hands of their children
Untitled (Vancouver)
Untitled (Toronto)
