“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
― Mary Shelley
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Organized Chaos
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
― Mary Shelley
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Gallery Visit: Jane Ash Poitras at the ROM
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| "Potato Peeling 101 to Ethnobotany 101" Jane Ash Poitras, 2004 mixed media |
Jane Ash Poitras is a well recognized figure in First Nations contemporary art and the paintings featured in the ROMs First Peoples gallery show why. Bursting with colour and rich in imagery, they give a profound sense of narrative that explores the impact of colonialism in First Nations people.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
"'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see."
–Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Silence
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| "Silence Will Serve" encaustic altered book, 2013 |
There is a mystery too deep for words;
the silence of the dead comes nearer to it,
Being wisest in the end. What word shall hold
the sorrow sitting at the heart of things,
The majesty and patience of the truth.
Silence will serve; it is an older tongue:
The empty room, the moonlight on the wall.
Speak for the unreturning traveller.
-John Hall Wheelock
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
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