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November 30, 2017On November 30th 2017, I ran a workshop with high school students from HWDSB....
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October 30, 2017In connection with my Cloud Storage exhibit this month - I also held a workshop at...
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October 11, 2017This post is about a Photoshop technique to create spiral images from wide-proportion rectangles....
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October 2, 2017I'm pleased to introduce a new body of work, entitled "Cloud Storage" at Gallery4...
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November 25, 2016NOTE: This post is adapted from a paper that I submitted towards the completion...
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November 15, 2016As part of my Rock Bands exhibit at HAVN in November 2016, I created...
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November 11, 2016Entanglements is a short film about stray plastic (caution tape, shopping bags, packing materials, etc.)...
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November 11, 2016"A choral performance/presentation where multimedia interactions occurred between rock formations, humans and other creatures"...
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November 4, 2016I'm happy to invite you to Rock Bands, an exhibit featuring a new series...
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September 24, 2016The written word makes it possible to understand more deeply who you are and...
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August 31, 2016In 2016, I completed a major research project towards the completion of my MA...
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August 5, 2016This post is dedicated to my Mother, Coby Sikkema. Thanks mom! My parents recently returned...
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July 18, 2016PeaceWeave is a collaboration with art students from McMaster's ART 2PG3: Contemporary Approaches to Painting....
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July 17, 2016On Sunday, July 17, 2016, I presented my work at Salon Jacques, an artist...
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July 6, 2016I'm grateful, this July, to have been offered a guest-writer opportunity on the Bay...
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April 7, 2016NOTE: This post is adapted from a paper that I submitted towards the completion...
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March 9, 2016The face is, in and of itself, visitation and transcendence. —Emmanuel Levinas For whom do the...
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February 24, 2016Haters heap scorn on the selfie, lamenting this ubiquitous start-up genre as quintessentially narcissistic....
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February 3, 2016This photo series constitutes my response to a prompt from Robert Hamilton to create...
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February 2, 2016In January 2016, I organized "tactic tactic" a group exhibition together with Dr. David...
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January 9, 2016“I am here to answer all your communion cup questions,” announces Eric Melzer. His...
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December 10, 2015James. N. Allan's freemasonry notwithstanding, Hamilton's weeds still worship with adequate space and light....
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November 6, 2015We live on a magnetic planet. And for this, be grateful! Thanks to earth's...
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October 22, 2015Whilst brainstorming about topics for Multimedia Research, I realized that whiteboards, though interesting, might...
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October 10, 2015It wasn't what I was anticipating for October's art crawl, but when Andrew McPhail asked whether I'd...
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August 14, 2015I'm a real bird! Tweet! Tweet! —@Teutul "I'm a real bird! Tweet! Tweet!" A pithy pet epithet?...
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July 11, 2015Google's neural network spends a lot of time looking at fuzzy creatures (dogs, mostly)....
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June 30, 2015Neither the carriers of a Christ-yoke, nor the navigators of heavier spiritual paths, ever quite escape the...
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June 4, 2015With the month of May having expired, I picked up my Gyres artworks from...
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May 22, 2015When airplanes (in literature and song) fall from the sky, there is liable to...
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April 20, 2015Dregs. Leftover (cocoa) bubbles in a cup. Satisfied traces in a swig-wake. Just accidental patterns? Or...
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April 18, 2015On the heels of Scrapin' the Wasteland, Stephen (my gracious host) introduced me and...
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April 16, 2015Jordan Ontario is nestled in the heart of Niagara's wine growing region - and...
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March 25, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vGI6ROqmU
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February 17, 2015Moving water does not readily solidify. And so even as frozen pipes fail to deliver...
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February 2, 2015scrapin' the wasteland Earlier this year, my friend Stephen Svenson hosted "Scrapin' the Wasteland", an evening...
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December 24, 2014If you're familiar with Cardus, you'll have come across an issue or two of...
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November 27, 2014What happens when you hang your world on imagination? This past summer, Phil, Rob, Julia...
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October 31, 2014It's tempting to don a skeleton on one of the few days of the...
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July 16, 2014I had a great time at Art Forms Youth Art Studio this week, making little...
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May 1, 2014This Essay was first published as part of DEVOTIONS, an exhibit curated by Bryce...
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December 26, 2013Father Christmas remembers (in spite of frostbite) not to slouch in the company of guests. But...
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February 8, 2013This essay first appeared as part of my LANDSCRAPES exhibition at the you me...
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December 18, 2012If you believe this world is slated for destruction anyway, what motivation would you...
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December 18, 2012History is the fiction we invented to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and...
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December 18, 2012...is it absurd to talk about the birth of a star, since "birth" is...
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December 18, 2012Reading Genesis without knowledge of ancient languages, ancient history, archaeology, and philosophy is like...
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December 18, 2012The occasion for this question today is its appearance this week in a sermon...
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December 18, 2012Re - deem: to "deem" again e.g. I deem you worthy. I dub you friend I assign you...
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December 18, 2012Most people that I've met hold at least two kinds of commitments: commitments to people commitments...
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December 18, 2012Allow me to deconstruct your world for you. It will only take a second. Faith...
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December 18, 2012I understand this maxim to mean that in order to rightly value my own...
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November 24, 2012Not so long ago, people were displaced, families disrupted, battles fought, and arguments heated,...
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June 27, 2012With Oreo having triggered a lovely ruckus earlier this week, I note - tongue...
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June 26, 2012There's a unique privilege that I enjoy, in renting a room next-door to a...
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June 26, 2012Onomatopoeic stroke of adversity sprung from a brush loaded with layers and layers and seasons...
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June 13, 2012Which form of reason do you consider sacred. Your own reason? Western reason? If...
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June 4, 2012Crude Marxism says "there is the base and the superstructure, and there is nothing...
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May 21, 2012Gotta get some bearings today, feel like I'm coasting. with ease, through this journey now. Like I...
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May 16, 2012When you enter the church through the backdoor you don't have to first swallow...
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May 7, 2012How do we love all the children of all the species for all time? stewardship...
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April 29, 2012Colours do not fade but rather are obstructed by blocked inkjet nozzles, killed by camera...
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April 28, 2012"I mend broken machinery and articles of iron; I lift heavy objects." Iorek Byrnison, armoured...
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April 23, 2012I've been working with Tom Smith at SML Solutions to produce my digital tapestries...
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April 8, 2012Don't be afraid its only me The door wasnt locked If only we could trust each...
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March 9, 2012If you have to wait until your "Western Seeker" mode becomes outmoded, and uncool,...
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February 25, 2012... to rebel against a tradition or to improve upon it until I have mastered...
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February 25, 2012The final arbiter (of truth) is individual conscience and power of reason. A man...
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February 21, 2012Occham's razor favours the simplest solution. Water favours the path of least resistance. People prefer the...
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January 30, 2012We should base justice on creating restoration, by addressing root causes of problems. This...
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January 12, 2012oh conniving incubator direct your brooding righteous anger to devise an assassination plot for greed See Also:...
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December 28, 2011...so far has been the journey of the Genevan tunes. The Turkish psalms of Polish Hugenot,...
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December 24, 2011"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation." Excerpt from T.S. Eliot, "The...
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December 15, 2011Flesh Word straddles the interface between idea and action. It's a kind of language...
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November 25, 2011Theistic evolution, when followed to its end, may lead Christians to question the authority...
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November 24, 2011Coordinates: 27.818124,-15.767749 This beach lies just to the west of the harbour in Mogán in...
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November 22, 2011What I represent to her now is failed relationship, ample weight for sinking, and pacified potential, dragged...
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November 21, 2011True or False: To truly understand it, You have to try it. True or False:...
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November 17, 2011No matter how hard I wish for plain simplicity, the world I live in...
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November 8, 2011In certain church subcultures, strength is derived from emphasis on marriages and family. That...
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October 27, 2011So I get this random email criticising CBC for airing Katy Brand's Big Ass...
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September 30, 2011Corrie Kessler's mother has a print hanging in her house. It's Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegories of...
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September 29, 2011Does higher criticism proceed solely on the basis of anti-supernatural and rationalistic presuppositions? Or...
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September 22, 2011I found this ambitious quote from A.W. Tozer: The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian...
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September 7, 2011God Although God is an entirely human construct, humanity is also a divine construct: and...
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September 6, 2011If Jesus ever sang or read Psalm 22:6, did he mean it? If he really...
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September 3, 2011This is quite the place. Sandwiched between two lakes - each offering a unique...
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September 1, 2011Giving comes back like a well sent boomerang. And tithing is unstoppable. But can I really...
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August 16, 20116-year-old me didn't need to know the author's name, although the gold-coloured Newberry medal...
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July 20, 2011There's a particular kind of memento mori that leads one to peaceful acquiescence in...
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July 5, 2011The bit in brackets is not a scripture reference. "Rev. 2" is a designation...
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May 29, 2011These words herald a story told elsewhere. I'm telling it there because I thought...
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March 11, 2011Is there life after shelf life? After shelf death, is there redemption? If dinner's not your destiny you grow...
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February 19, 2011I love housework. I don't always do my chores on time, but when I...
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January 14, 2011While for the generals Montcalm and Wolfe, "Québéc Citadel" might have connoted heavy artillery,...
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November 17, 2010Whether or not I did my dishes well, the microsopic remnants of yesterday's fair may well...
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September 27, 2010Large Size When candle-light cavorts through wine's red iridescence and frolics on the clean white...
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September 7, 2010Large Size When I discovered (several weeks after having constructed this mound of milkweed and...
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September 1, 2010Translated from the dutch, this phrase means "persevere, boy!" For me it carried particular weight...
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August 11, 2010Stretch out your limbs to where the light is and you just might graze...
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July 14, 2010On Sunday evening I attended a concert performance, put on by the Reformed String...
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July 8, 2010It strikes me that Mandelbrot's maxim might just as easily apply in a moral...
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May 6, 2010Large Size Yesterday a man with a gas-powered steel-brushed broom cleaned the slab of concrete that...
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April 16, 2010Large Size Confederation Park, Stoney Creek: the edge of earth and water, the place where...
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April 15, 2010Large Size A little branding mistake or a cute irony? The missing 's' is alright...
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April 15, 2010Large Size Blue: shovel, pencap, part of a mini frisbee, hook, plastic bag, crushed mini...
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April 5, 2010However dry is bone or stone or dust, vivacious living water percolates through corpse-reviving Spirit-breath: (re)animating...
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March 17, 2010Large Size Father Colonel Lieutenant Francis Patrick Duffy is not the Patrick in whose honour...
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February 26, 2010Large Size This week's snowicane has apparently failed to make it far enough inland to...
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February 19, 2010This is a self portrait of sorts. Lately I've been completely in the web...
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January 26, 2010I've been inspired by zazzle stickers. I decided to do a few of my...
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January 26, 2010I've been inspired by zazzle stickers. I decided to do a few of my...
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January 8, 2010According to Google, "every Man's god is"... 1. his highest ideal 2. what he attaches the...
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December 25, 2009Large Size On this Christmas evening, I want to reach out and connect with all...
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December 1, 2009Apparently you can now get competing quotes for an eternal relationship. I wonder if...
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November 30, 2009Large Size Dream with me in warmer grey and white beneath this dreary misery. Discover nuance...
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October 29, 2009Large Size Forever etched into my consciousness is a rhyme I heard as a child...
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October 28, 2009Large Size Perhaps more interesting than the question "Which way is up?" is the Paradox...
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October 27, 2009Large Size This is plagiarism. I stole the idea from Natalie Jeremijenko. Of course, I'm...
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September 17, 2009If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit. --Jesus Large...
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September 17, 2009"And you never would have thought in the end, How amazing it feels just...
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September 12, 2009Buy Prints I've produced a consumer: a polylithic monster of batteries and baby birds. I gorge myself on the swirl...
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August 19, 2009Until we have a place in which to breath, live, and thrive, we are...
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August 4, 2009This little empire of driftwood and debris is unconcerned with paradox or Christianity. It sweeps and...
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July 8, 2009No matter what your job is, you're always serving someone else's interests. When I...
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July 3, 2009Mylar Redemption - Large Size I dislike most swimming pools, not because of the chlorine,...
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June 11, 2009Sporting a perimeter of forests, marshes, horse farms, and used cars (for-sale), Campbellville Road...
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May 25, 2009I love the blend of tension and unity that happens when flora and fauna...
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May 1, 2009Conversation was the thing I valued most about showing on James North, as well...
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April 14, 2009The miracle of resurrection is (on a microscopic level) the re-arranging of particles, animated...
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April 8, 2009Creature One greets you with a wistful smile... a glance of simultaneous apathy and...
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April 8, 2009There is a sense in which my current theme, visual theology tires me out....
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March 6, 2009Harm not done is quite another thing from love lavished. "Do not harm your neighbour...
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March 3, 2009Miss statue waving her metal flame doggedly this first of March (whose weather Februarian remains) scorns this rusted,...
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February 13, 2009I create spiritually-themed images that fuse the qualities of traditional art with the freedom...
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January 28, 2009It's wonderful to reminisce over an old painting, and to look at it with...
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January 17, 2009With a temperature in Ontario hovering around 20 degrees C below zero, there isn't...
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December 31, 2008These holiday weeks have been a wonderful time of reflection. And now I have...
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December 27, 2008Take a walk to clear your head of all the tinsel. Leave behind the mittens that you lose. Ponder anew the...
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December 14, 2008The Fifty Stems series is process art, in which the Ontario October becomes more...
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November 28, 2008Critique - New Space - McMaster University In response to Fall; Rise, I've been privileged...
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October 27, 2008I take and take and click and take and take and have forgotten how to give a...
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October 21, 2008Having instilled in His creatures the same creative qualities whereby He Himself made them,...
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October 16, 2008There was a moment, while Christ hung on the cross, that the temple curtain...
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October 16, 2008The delicate collected remains of erased pencil marks, and the rubbery interior of...
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October 8, 2008Lately I've been experimenting with painting on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers. Here's a...
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October 8, 2008The speaking-in-tongues that we find in Pentecost is a reconciliation of the divided linguistic...
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October 8, 2008In response to humanity's proud attempt to build a tower to the heavens, the...
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September 30, 2008Although I would probably be quite happy to confine my artmaking to the Canadian...
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September 8, 2008As my mind begins to settle back into the Canadian reality, I have to...
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