I Hope

…that I can be as dedicated to my practice as Viola Frey:

Note: Does this violate my no-video challenge? If it wasn’t part of the resource material for the mentorship that I’m currently participating in, I’d say ‘yes’.

He Yis What He Yis

For some reason the theme song for the “Popeye” cartoons popped into my head tonight (I blame it on the antihistamine I took earlier on an empty stomach). This led to thinking of what a delightfully ambiguous role model he was.
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Missed Muse

Apologies for the break in blogging. I was out of town for the weekend and fully expected to be able to zip off some quick posts, but alas it didna happen.
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Mouse In My House

Seriously. Just seconds ago it ran across the laminate in front of me, scurried behind a bookcase, scampered out the other side and took refuge under one of my studio tables.
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Heavy-duty Nuisance

Over the past few years months THIS has been waking me up weekday mornings, sometimes as early as 6:30am:
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Still Life (Jacket With Dog)

Elvis in his recently acquired life jacket:
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Summer Lit

Needing something to help fill the video-void (can’t work all day AND all night, at least not indefinitely) I realized a trip to the library was in order.
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NuQuills

Finding feathers suitable for quill making proved to be more of a challenge than I anticipated.
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I Challenge You

To join me in a 30 Day No-video Challenge.
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Irony

There is a “Peasant Loaf” in the Whole Foods bread aisle priced at $7.89.

Wish I Could Fly…

Hoping to expand my twice-weekly yoga practice I browsed YouTube for free yoga videos. A search for Hatha postures produced an offering from Yoga Yak that piqued my interest: Hatha Yoga for Sadness Relief.
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Clear Cut

In preparation of creating an informational package to send out to larger galleries and museums I made a general mind map of my work so that I could isolate recurring themes.
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My New Old Thing

While searching craigslist for a small filing cabinet I discovered an interesting business: QIC Used Furniture. A more fitting name would be be QIC Used Miscellany, as their inventory spans a vast and eclectic mix of items, among them a bird cage and a circular miter-saw.
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Histamine & Hormones

According to local allergy authorities pollen counts are 10 times higher than normal in Vancouver this year. Heck, I coulda told you that. I’ve had a couple of miserable months while nature decides whether or not it is spring.
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Happy 144th

Hope everyone had a chance to do something unsanctioned and festive this Canada Day. I had the opportunity to watch Vancouver’s Canada Place display from a friend’s building’s rooftop.
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Word Of The Day

tetch.y (adjective)
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The Sound of Music

Something I’ve been working on while I’ve been absent from my post (sorry, pun just happened, couldn’t be helped) is honing my musical adroitness. Seeing as I didn’t really have much to begin with, there can only be room for improvement. Those kind of odds appeal to me.
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Utterly Inflexible

Every time I go to yoga I am shamefully reminded about the results I scored during a flexibility test on a recent trip to Science World.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Oh, wait a minute, that’s poetry – teen poetry.
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Leonardo Gets A New Coat

Or at least a pocket.
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Thrown Out On A Technicality

If I’m using a Whitney Museum of American Art bag to line my studio garbage pail…
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Go See This

Friend and artist Sharon Kallis, and her artist-arm-candy Mr. Fire-Man, picked me up en route to Richmond tonight for the opening of Fibred Optics at the Richmond Art Gallery.
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Low Rider

These jeans are literally perched on this dude’s bottom limits. What keeps them from sliding down?
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Dog Write

Today I came across some notes I had been saving. They were from Elvis.
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Jaw-Clencher

I know I do it when I’m working in the studio, concentrating and focused.
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