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Pender Island Cabin. Under Construction Coming 2021

A vacation cabin designed for two sisters. Facing the ocean, the main facade opens like a gleaming face, happy to meet the world.

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Island of Salt Exhibition, Summer 2020

Works created during the lockdown. I built a wall in the front of my studio so that with the garage door open a gallery space could open onto the alley where many people walk by. 

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Human Schematic. 2020

Oak, Glass, Brass, Acrylic, Stones. 4′X5′X1′

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The Universal and Contingent’s Ground. 2020

Oak, Brass, Glass, Acrylic Paint, Stone. 30″X30″X4″

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Opening Face. 2020

Painting on Canvas. India Ink, Gesso, Acrylic, Brass Leaf. approx 3'-6"X4'-6"

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Breath of Form. 2020

Sculpture. Oak and Brass. approx 12"X14"X6". 

I am searching here, as in other works, to reveal a sense for the spontaneous manifestation of form, such as what one experiences in moments of epiphany where suddenly something that “makes sense” stands forward from the previously incomprehensible. 

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Wall Lamp. 2020

Made from White Oak and Copper sheet metal. Approx 24″X14″X4″

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Artist’s Studio. 2020

Designed to be a live-in artists studio in the woods. Unique spatial moments are created inside the studio by the use of unique window arrangements. By crafting special places inside this increased the sense of space in this little studio. 

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Sky Between Eyes. 2019/2020

pine, oak, and brass. 48″X10″

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The Fresh Face. 2019

Oil stick on paper. 18″X24″

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Nothing Is Not Nothing. 2019

White Pencil Crayon on Painted Wood, 20″X36″

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The Corners of my Lot. 2019

Paint on Canvas. 48″X53″

For many years I have practiced a technique of automatic drawing, and gradually the quality of what “comes through” the drawing process has steadily improved in relevance. This painting is the largest and most ambitious of my attempts to draw forth what hides in the subconscious darkness. What came through this time was an incredible map of spiritual complexes and paths for integration. Much of the symbolism that came through I am still in the process of interpreting. Overtop of the drawings I there are black splotches with text from my notebooks. This creates a semantic layer above the symbolic that relates cogent insights about what is going on with this map.

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The Gifting Dance. 2019.

Painting: Ink, Black & White, Metal, Acrylic on Bronze, Canvas. approx 54″X48″

This work expresses a spiritual geography. It is inspired by the eruption of subterranean magma as a metaphor for the experience of an epiphany. The three symbols that revolve around the bursting volcano (or equally a cut tree) symbolize different ways that epiphanies manifests: through text, sounds and sight, and the manner of being. These are symbols for which meaning has agglomerated, and which the viewer can reinterpret. The work is made with an acrylic background that was done by watering down paint and allowing it to flow. I rotated the canvas adjusting with the shifting atmospheres until the right point was reached. The images are painted in India ink and the gold circles are applied brass leaf.

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...5,1,4,1,3—Done!

December 14, 2019 — January 18, 2020 

Group Show: Stephane Gaulin-Brown, Shannon Garden-Smith, Craig Spence

Gallery: Pumice Raft 348 Ryding Ave, Unit 103 Toronto, ON M6N 1H5

Press: Journal.fyi, Tzvetnik

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Ways Through the Palace. 2019

Pen and marker on paper, 22″X30″, 

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S(p^lace) S(peaks)! 2019 

Oil, acrylic, watercolour, ink, and brass on canvas. approx 3′X4′