Dear Chapters…
While meandering through your aisles – as I oft do on a Sunday afternoon – I was dismayed, nay, DISGRUNTLED, to come upon an island of books categorized as “Chick Lit”.
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Author Archive
What Regina had to say about Slim Shady…
Here’s a sampling of comments from the Fifth Parallel Gallery exhibit. Names have been omitted to protect the innocent (and people’s mothers who don’t know that their progeny has sailor-mouth).
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Survival Games (Works In Progress)
AKA: “The Series Formally Known as Hunter/Quarry”.
In Grade 7 my class went on a field trip to a large wooded property located outside of town to play “The Survival Game”.
Mourning the Death of Sony
Well, not ALL Sony’s, the death of Sony in general would be too much to ask.
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Incomplete (Works In Progress)
A sneak peek into my current studio practice and the works-on-paper series I am exorcising. Updated as work progresses.
How To Be
When describing me as a child, my mother will comment, “Jody was always trying to be something…a cat, a horse, a praying mantis”. I think my tendency to engage in relentless play-acting was due to the discomfort I felt in just being myself. It wasn’t enough to just be, I had to be something.
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I Am Your
Awww…so tiny, but so very, very angry.
WARNING: Extensive use of expletives.
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Artventures In Regina: Day 6
My last day in Regina. I spend it at the university, chatting with grad and undergrad students that I have met over the past few days while I monitor the gallery, document the installation, and type away on my computer. I only have a few more hours in this city and it feels entirely comfortable to be spending them in this way. In five days I have become familiar with streets and some locations, particularly the university.
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Artventures In Regina: Day 5
Wednesday morning, show is up, reception is over, gallery is open for business as usual. I have the entire day to putter about on my own in Regina while Barb is getting some work done at the university.
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Artventures In Regina: Day 4
As expected, lighting is an entirely new truckload of thrills, spills, and surprises (actually, it wasn’t that eventful, but it sounds more exciting if I imply that I fell off the 12 foot ladder on to the concrete floor).
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Artventures In Regina: Day 3
My second morning in Regina and I am back at the gallery bright and early with a full day of washing and painting plinths (note to self: 2-dimensional work eliminates need for plinths).
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Artventures In Regina: Day 2
Barb and I drive in to the University of Regina this morning and I get my first view of the Fifth Parallel Gallery.
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Artventures In Regina: Day 1
Here I am in Regina. First time in the prairies. It is unseasonably HOT (meaning that it is normally fairly warm here in the summer, but this is above and beyond with high, high humidity. I’m talking the kind of wet hot where just sitting around in the heat is enough to make your panties get soaked through with sweat (and not in a good way).
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Slim Shady Series
The “Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?1” series details the attempt to obtain and maintain a genuine, unadulterated identity in contemporary, consumer-driven society.
People In My Neighbourhood
Being a woman of a certain income, I have always lived in what may be classified as the undesirable areas of the city: the “bad neighbourhoods”.
Favourite Ways With Pheasant
Technically part of the Slim Shady series, but chunky enough to eat with a fork and therefore deserving its own category.
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