Summer Study
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.
in cemento veritas
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
Jellyfish and Microbeads
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
Peppers for a Stew
This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.
Covidscapes
These images were done during our Covid isolation.
Time
Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.
A Spring Collection
A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.
3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy
The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.
Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Diversity Dance
Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
Birdhouse in the Birches
A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.
In cemento veritas
Paintings and sculptures.
Garcia Lorca
Drawing of Garcia Lorca.
Thoughts on Modernist poetry
The modernist poetry movement has radically changed the rules in form, style, stanza, and rhythm.
Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins
A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.
Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen
This book can elicit an infectious curiosity about Bollywood amongst audiences beyond the mediascape of India/South Asia.
Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison
An interview with Best-Selling Novelist Jonathan Evison about his new book, Small World (2022).
An Apology for M.Phil.
A globally-acknowledged degree, of respected stature and ancient origins, does not find a place in the popular imagination.
Quirks and Quiddities
All about the dangers of soil erosion in Bangladesh, the fate of farmers, and what is being done to prevent it.
Lost in the Fog
It is about the unholy creation, existence, liberation, and legacy of the Nazi death camps as documented by “Night and Fog.”
Living is also about Learning to Die
Learning to die is the beginning of living.
An ARTistic Ride
From Stanley Park and Yaletown, to Granville Island and False Creek, I share eight of my favorites over the years.
On Poetics (and matters of similar tedium)
A look at the current literary scene as someone sees it (mainly).
Did Frodo Make it to Mordor or Not?
One Courageous Translator Kept Readers in the Soviet Union Waiting Years to Find out
Book Review – The Hill by Ali Bryan
A book review of Ali Bryan’s new novel, The Hill.
The Pros and Cons of Ghostwriting
There are pros and cons to ghostwriting, which this article aims to elaborate on.
Fifteen Minutes to Cavendish
A relationship viewed through a discussion on real estate. We get so caught up in “What-Ifs,” we lose sight of what’s right in front of us.
Lenses
This was written from the perspective of lenses. It doesn’t provide a solution; it only records what it sees. The consequences are unknown.
Dreams and Secrets of the Sea
A tale of a little orphan girl stealing dreams from a green, bib-wearing Sea Serpent, in a world where fairies take children’s dreams.
The Flower Lady
Love and compassion bloom during a pandemic.
The Exiled Shore
A high functionary in a dictatorship is sent into exile, facing an uncertain, yet strangely comfortable future.
The Days After
Eddie has left prison, but the prison hasn’t left him.
The Devil Made Us Do It…
Once upon a time two lady pirates set sail in the South China Sea in search of treasures hidden by the Japanese during WWII.
Latchkey Girl
A love affair between mathematics and cinema is created by a beautiful, young heart!
Crying
The central character’s grief following the death of his wife is made more complicated by her deathbed confession of marital infidelity.
The Carnival
Rowan McArthur has always wanted to run his own carnival to delight and frighten his small village. He will give anything to have it.
Los Imperiales
A family trust shields a tiny town from the ‘winds of change’.
My Call
My Call is about a predator who uses a phone call to terrify and capture a victim.
It Can Wait
London. May, 1916. Harry Strange makes a momentous decision. He fears his wife’s reaction, but in his angst, he overlooks an important occasion.
Trees of the house
Women and trees interconnect, the nuance of support. They weep and write, create and cry. Trees create magic similarly.
The Finch’s Song
Someone who has made an eternal decision, to find that perhaps the outcome isn’t exactly what they expected.
Taps – The Final Salute
My brother’s military funeral in the pouring rain.
It Is Time To Come Home
Our existential home is found when and where the searching ends.
Nervously Again
A view of early morning existential dread.
distance and divide
The poem is a pied piper for the rats in my mind.
Many vs Few
For Helen Hengxiang Liao
Hug me in my dream
In my memory,
Your lips mother never touched my dimpled face
Time
A meditation
The Voice of Truth
About Shireen Abu Aqla the Palestinian reporter.
Strife is a songbird
A dystopian state of mind, in which the US, amidst a current divide in political and cultural values, throws itself into another civil war.
Ceremonies of Innocence
A wistful nostalgic sonnet.
A Poet Is Born
A very short poem hinting at the mystery of creating.