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.
Virtual Detroit
Photography from around Detroit.
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.
Defying Psychoanalysis in Djuna Barnes’ To the Dogs and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
To the Dogs and Tender Is the Night are two works that strive to challenge Freudian notions on Psychoanalytic methods and gender theories.
Edie on the Green Screen: Laying Down the Armor of the Invulnerable It-Girl
This review looks at Beth Lisick’s forthcoming novel and engages with how Lisick’s title character will speak to the aging non-conformist.
Review of The Group of Seven Reimagined
Editor Karen Schauber has put together a fascinating collection of literary stories, all of which were inspired by famous, historic Canadian paintings.
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.
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.
Roses and Thorns
A myth about the creation of the rose and the struggle to make sense of why pain exists.
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.
Our Arborist
Tree limbs provide a bridge across fences dividing people.
Pasture Statues
What does the cow see behind the woman and child?
The Man Who Murdered the Smartest Man in the World
At the crossroads of faith and artificial intelligence.
What to Bring Your First Time at the Death Cafe
The limits of grieving alone.
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.
to hear a voice, see a face
Life during COVID19.
White Lava
Earth’s Nature took a backseat.
Mutant man, loomed a siege.
Splendid Isolation of Different
An Aesop Fables style narrative about how we should always try to be our own unique individual.
The Three Spinsters
Centered around the strength and relentless power of women, which is obscured and made to be surprising when it is finally revealed.
Fine stitching
A short poem about someone else’s poems.
What Freedom Means
A in-depth poem that is both relevant to our current time, sentiments, and issues of the world.
Depression, 2020
I haven’t written a poem in a long time.
The words were missing, lost children.