Lost Heartbeats
Bold and high contrast colors intended to be the visual equivalent of a heartbeat, one that is lost because it was not taken.
Detached From Color
Photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response.
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.
Ribbon
White paper clay sculptures, various designs.
From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope
This is a review of Mehreen Ahmed’s novel, Incandescence published by Impspired Magazine, UK and written by Chitra Gopalakrishnan.
The Corner Store
A local landmark, a collection of antique merchandising gear, and what Tuffer Gibson calls his baby, that’s the Corner Store.
Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
A review of Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.
On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself
“Write what you know” is common writing advice. But how do we make this mean something and make it a part of our own writing?
Jean Paul
One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Problematic Pollock: Why is he painting on the rug?
Exploring some of the ways in which cultural history has glorified Pollock’s work and turned it into a monolithic iconic entity.
Eyes on the Prize
Before there was transgender there was One-Eyed Charley.
A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson
A book review of Couri Johnson’s latest novella of fabulist short stories.
The Lang Fairy Books
A brief overview of the famous series edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, and his wife Nora, who did much of the rewriting.
Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems
A review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems by Oisín Breen, published by Beir Bua Press.
Review of The Mayapple Forest
A review of Kim Ports Parsons’ book of poetry The Mayapple Forest.
The Hongwu Emperor, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and “The Hundred Word Eulogy”
“The Hundred Word Eulogy” as pro-Islamic is challenged by translations that suggest the material fulfills two functions of a eulogy.
The Jejune
The jejune shares a handsome similitude with Mammon, in his politically-correct dysplasia, and his ability to fake.
Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar
A review of Emily Schulten’s book of poetry The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar.
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.
The Frightful Fall
A healthcare aid panics when his client falls through the Hoyer Lift and to the floor.
Rough Ride
“Rose, watch little Al while I go to the store and get a few things for dinner. I won’t be but an hour,” called Jenny Wilkinson.
Lot Dog
Monday mayhem inside the “Dream Factory.”
The Best of Mothers
The overturning of Roe Vs Wade, for an Indian woman looking to the West as a model for women’s rights, this was my honest view.
A Spirit of Fate
With a dirty hand, the lad held the small, amber vessel into the moonlight and peered at it.
4-12%
A father dealing with his chronic illness and his fears for his young daughter. A mother trying to maintain a sense of normalcy in the chaos.
The Water Charm
The stars align like a map resulting in a collision between aspiration and opportunity on a diverse cultural highway including dinosaurs.
Mary Mary
A young agnostic woman visits a cathedral to become closer to her ex-girlfriend.
Minor Marvel
Been there, done that, preconceived notions blown to pieces.
Making Friends the Deadly Way
Can you recall a time when you didn’t fit in? Tyrone finds a path to popularity, only to discover its source bursting with radiation.
Feline Fright
All too often, cats are underrated and underappreciated. Jasper is a cat who demands to be valued.
The Course of Kind
An interplay of preconceptions, the arts, faith, acceptance, discovery and love.
The Voice In Your Head
Stew has some problems with anxiety and self doubt, which manifests itself as Andy, the voice in Stew’s head.
A Bruise And A Cut
A visit to a sexual health clinic makes a young woman re-think the imbalance of her relationship.
Flight AWE613
Michael finds himself reevaluating his priorities and delving into precious memories as the plane he’s on seems doomed to crash.
Jack’s Gamble
Good and evil, virtue and vice…is it all just a toss of a coin?
War winter
I left America, where gun violence is endemic. Europe seemed safer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe still seems safer.
Reflection
Reflection on writing and mortality.
Diné Deliverance
Loren was a member of the Diné nation who came on occasion to talk. Diné is alternative nomenclature for Navajo.
Reflections at Age Ninety-nine
Bunny Moon reflects on her life as she approaches her 100th birthday.
In Solidarity With The Fall
Travel from physics to the physical reaction of our mindwork.
Battles Unseen
There are so many unseen battles going on behind the eyes of people who say they are fine. Let’s all be a little kinder today…
The Necessary Angel
This poem is about a necessary angel telling a young man with mental health problems the truth he needed to hear.
Booked to Heaven
I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.
Private Passageway
A poem about aging, reflection and lost opportunities. However, dreams in retrospect provide a way to rewrite history.
Bridge Of Dreams
How peaceful dreams can also be agitating.
Drunk
Drunk is a poem that implores the idea of heartbreaks and how some deep bonds when broken can make us feel so drunk and delusional.
Crypt in the Sky
please don’t bury me beneath
this ground, don’t let me decay
Almost End of a Line
This poem reflects my love of mythology, teaching and learning, and above all of the ways in which words collide.
Love Thy Neighbor
A poem about the war in the Ukraine.
The Cycle
Dedicated to all women who have suffered abuse at the hands of the man who was supposed to love them.
A Garden Grows
Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine