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.
A vein of gold in Paris
Using a tilt-shift lens and post-processing for the colors, I created this photo of a Paris street that looks like a vein of gold.
Clay Sculptures
Assorted paper white clay sculptures.
Floral Ecstacy
After the long, cold, dark winters I find the spring so invigorating. I finally started photographing budding flowers and green city views again.
Hitler Clone (60)
There are 88 Hitler clones in total, every clone being the source material for the subsequent one.
Dock of the Bay
Stunning boat and dock photography.
The Making of a Martyr: George Floyd & the Cycle of History
Locations and contexts of sub-human brutalities.
Reclaiming Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The adaptation and reclaiming of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Something Remains
When inspiration is gone something remains, writing.
A Bad Man’s Good Book: An Appreciation
An appreciation of Russian writer Aleksandr Chakovsky, who, despite being a loathsome Stalinist toady, wrote at least one really good book.
Procrastination
A short personal essay on vulnerability and the writing process.
Difficulty Swallowing by Kym Cunningham; Essays That Will Stick in Your Teeth
A review of Kym Cunningham’s debut collection of personal essays; Difficulty Swallowing.
Modern Day Phantoms found in Women’s Literature
Women writers in the 19th and 20th Centuries were far ahead of their time.
On Inspiration
Is inspiration ephemeral or damn hard work? One writer provides his thoughts on this perennial subject.
Jewel: A Memoir
Review of author Jewel Davis’s memoir – a window into the Baby Boomer Generation.
The Human-Actor, Moments to Anagnorisis
Shakespeare had once composed, and asked Jacques to tell the literary world of a ball that was, to him, a stage.
Review of Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits forgotten
A review of Review of Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits forgotten, a book of poetry by Oisin Breen.
Unleavened Flatbread
The best writing advice I have ever received.
Melville’s Bartleby and Camus’ Absurdism
A close reading of both Bartleby and The Stranger highlights the striking similarities in imagery, symbolism, and theme between the two works.
November Seventeenth
A special day in the life of a working couple whose relationship is fraying under the stress caused by one partner’s success.
Complicity
Unfortunately, sometimes self-awareness arrives long after the opportunity to make a difference.
I can see a tree from the forest
Sleeping hearts are woken by a dancing flash of light, deep within the forest canopy, under the Big Sky.
One Misty Night in Brooklyn
Standing in a moonlit alley a glint of light on broken glass on wet black tar.
Charlotte’s Law
A legal secretary gets a peek at the reality behind her lush fantasy life.
600°
We’ve heard about witches, books, and historical monuments being burned to ash, but what happens when it becomes writers instead?
I Wanted To Tell You
A rock concert becomes a fiery inferno, forever changing the lives of two best friends.
I’ll be late for the Christmas party!
An unconventional Christmas story.
Rape Culture
Somewhere in a post-patriarchal future where the onus is placed on men to be sure they have consent.
Roses and Thorns
A myth about the creation of the rose and the struggle to make sense of why pain exists.
My Coffee Date with Death
A chance meeting with a mysterious stranger provides a pathway to salvation for a desperate man who has lost his way during a pandemic.
May Day Mayday!
A story of one young American boy and his infatuation with his older Canadian friend, and their efforts to unionize the plant where they worked.
Glory Be
A small town is on edge due to a string of brutal murders. The town’s most senior detective, Detective Lohelm is on the case.
Pandemic Football
It’s what happens to a sport when a pandemic interferes.
Inside The Fabric
Discovery of inner strength is powerful. It can lead to rebirth of self and success.
I long to be there
Going back to grandmother’s home, a getaway from busy city life.
Country-Club Divas
Aiming for a “reality quotient” of 100 percent.
When I Was New
Spring is the season of hope and we need to believe our lives will improve.
Cultural
This poem is about diversity within modernity.
A Rare Day
Unlocking the mind in Spring after a long Winter
The Dark Angel
Frigid & stiff the valorous mortal lay
Dead are those days when we were gay
My Father Leaves For Alaska
The chill of the sudden parental departure.
An Unstable Moment
A moment of finding out a hard truth.
Upside Down
The goal is to blur and cross boundaries between the historic and contemporary, dream and conscious thought, ego and other.
Very Used Mind
We bought his mind at a garage sale.
It can jump from one thing to the
Reset
Inspired by Imagism while pausing on small moments and still spaces.