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Making vintage cards (with antique stories)
My artwork, whatever the medium, is inspired by memories, history, and family (and often my sense of humour). I see connections and follow threads, pulling on some when it strikes me. The art is what happens when I begin to tie those threads…
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So What the Heck is all this Edith Business?
About a thousand years ago, when I was much smaller and somewhat younger (and if I was sitting still long enough) I occasionally played with a box of “paper dolls” given to me by my mum; she had played with them, and they…
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For Love of House and Home
I slept on the floor for 6 months while ripping things apart and only graduated to a bed when I contracted Covid. Too sick to do much else, I sat on a pail in the backyard and refinished an old iron twin bed.…
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Finally did something – just for me
The art somehow survived three moves, a few years of storage where many other things suffered rodent damage, then narrowly escaped drowning here in the great dishwasher flood of 2024. It's big for my tiny home - I was going to give up…
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Oops I Did It Again
My patience for video-making has increased…(see my other whiny video post here) although I am sure most people take less than 4 hours to edit theirs. Also, their camera mount probably did not disappear all by itself (that’s right), forcing me to make…
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For Sale: One Uterus
"Warranty: Expired. This uterus has performed very well in the past, nurturing two female children almost to term in separate pregnancies. Do not be deterred by “almost to term” as a full 9 month term is too goddamned long anyway, and both infants…
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“I’d love to hear how they want to solve my painting”
I came across this video a few days ago; I loved it, the casting, the acting, and the writing - it's funny. Although "Museum-Worthy" is aimed at commercial makers/producers, it speaks to many of us in the creative arts. For any of my…
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To Record or Not to Record…
I don't like making videos (that's videos of me drawing). Yes, I mentioned that before. I usually put together animations of some kind, if I’ve had the presence of mind to take enough photos while I’m working. I get so far into the…
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sounds of memory
The other day I was on one of many trips to the lower level of the building where I work. That floor is hard and smooth and showroom-shiny, unlike the quiet carpeted floors above where my office is. A woman was walking down…
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Lytton, B.C. Fire 2015 (or, June is a very bad month)
The smoke today (I’m in Arnprior, sore throat from fires north of us in Quebec) prompted a very timely memory. I was driving on the Trans Canada along the Fraser River on this day in June 2015 with Suzo Hickey, working our way…
