tangential downpour

you know those really powerful hand-dryers

2012-02-16T22:25:00.002-05:00

my animal spirit guide thingy

2012-02-07T21:03:00.002-05:00

2012-01-30T01:25:00.002-05:00

most depressing smoothie. ew

2012-01-26T13:10:00.004-05:00

day & night

2012-01-20T09:08:00.002-05:00

things

2012-01-19T00:06:00.005-05:00

I rotate objects in this display case – which is not even a retired letterpress job case like is all-the-rage- it's just a reglurr ole case. Some of these things are precious, some are random or accidental. Some grow heavier with sentimental value with time, others lose their significance entirely.

1. Just some {megaprecious} lichen. Camping trip to Lake Wapizagonke, July 20, 2011

2. Used Kleenex (X3) from first three sessions of therapy. It does not seem to matter how good a mood I'm in, I step into that office and my eyes well up with projectile tears.

3. Skipping rope handle (bunny-shaped). You know when you see something you like and then you say you like it and then the person holding it says, "here, have it" and then you try to withdraw your affection for that object because now you've got that bullyish/awkward feeling? That's how I acquired this.

4. Sea urchin shell. Gift from friend's mom.

5. (empty)

6. (empty) (When numbers appear in brackets on your credit card statetment, it means you're actually in the positive).

7. Cassette tape circa 1994. Not sure what's on this since I don't have a tapedeck at the moment. I'm hoping it's a mix of Slaughter, Cinderella, maybe some Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dawg.

8. "You're my best friend" embroidery from Elisabeth Belliveau. It glows in the dark, she's my shining star.

9. Mini-bell. Removed from Alden's collar. Purple and not special.

10. Wristwatch. Thrift store find, sentimental value = 0.

11. Bark. From a hike to Camel's Hump in vermont

12. Nothing

13. Moss. I have a vague memory of picking this off a trail and thinking I should take it as a souvenir of this hike. But I don't remember the hike at all. The memory will remain unfired in some farflung neuron. I read an article once that proved – with actual science even! - that every time you recall a memory, you change it slightly. The act of digging up and telling an anecdote requires a bit of chemical reconsolidation which is kinda like reassembling a thousand little bones into a recognizable rodent skeleton, or putting together an Ikea bed after a move to a sunnier apartment. Chances are you'll get it slightly wrong, you'll leave out a couple minor details, or squeeze in a few dramatic embellishments. You might shift your perspective a couple degrees depending who's in the room. And then you're left standing over a seemingly assembled bed with a hex key and two screws in your hand, a pine slat on the ground and a puzzled feeling in your heart. It's sad in a way - the less you recall something, the more accurate it is. If you want to keep the memory of someone untainted by your own imagination, think about them only when absolutely necessary.

14. Rock. Again, no clue. It's not even a nice rock.

15. Blank

16. Lead letter 'K'. 18 pt font-size is my guess. A gift from 2010

17. Baggie containing my ID tag from birth (extremely sentimental) and a shark's tooth from Kandis (extremely special)

18. Birthday candles, some from my 31st and 32nd celebrations. Elisabeth made the cakes these were on. She told me it's bad luck to ever throw them away. I believe every word she says.

19. Another small piece of bark

20. Labrador tea, two buttons by Steven Horwood.

21. Drawing of a guy. Merv drew this in an attempt to describe a customer at the former Esperanza. I still don't know who this is supposed to be but Merv did write the word "blond" next to an arrow pointing to his head, along with the phrase "this guy is very tall" to communicate his impressive stature. I'm sure I'll be in line behind him at the Fruiterie one day and it'll all click.

22. Key to the basement. Practical.

23. Leaf

24. Blue ceramic bird. Do not recall how this came into my life.

25. Russian wind-up clock. Picked up in antique store downstairs from the apartment I was subletting in Berlin. This is what I used to wake up before I got a free ipod Touch with my computer a couple years ago. My ipod will likely soon break, but this clock will keep winding.

Stuff on top: Nancy Drew's Guide to Life, postcard from Pavitra, glasses that are fake

Stuff on bottom: silkscreened cards, leather wallet, matches, Valentino glasses case, beeswax candle, hat.

mountain metal

2012-01-08T15:21:00.002-05:00

metal machine cinema on the mountain last night.

rolling pins

2012-01-05T11:54:00.002-05:00

at farm table in burlington.

alden gets ready

2012-01-03T22:35:00.002-05:00

ages

2011-12-28T01:36:00.005-05:00

my life circa 1983

2011-12-25T13:05:00.008-05:00

a couple scenes from childhood. my siblings (except one)+aunt+me at home in jona (CH) videoed by our uncle adi in the early 80's.

maggie

2011-12-24T01:30:00.002-05:00

2011-12-23T02:33:00.004-05:00

jazzieheart.

2011-12-20T14:53:00.000-05:00

2011-12-19T21:29:00.005-05:00

easy oil more spells still

2011-12-06T00:03:00.003-05:00

mona

2011-10-19T12:21:00.001-04:00

2011-10-09T21:59:00.003-04:00

2011-10-01T10:10:00.001-04:00

believing and seeing

2011-09-25T22:06:00.004-04:00

2011-09-15T18:00:00.000-04:00

tooth, a poem

2011-09-14T16:27:00.000-04:00

this is a poem i wrote when i was ten.

2011-08-21T23:21:00.007-04:00

just a business meeting. no big deal.

2011-08-16T00:01:00.000-04:00

2011-08-15T22:30:00.001-04:00

2011-08-06T11:55:00.000-04:00

every good birthday requires a pizza burger, a wizard, a couple ponies, a cake and maybe a canoe.

2011-07-19T17:15:00.013-04:00

spinsters.

2011-07-17T17:52:00.000-04:00

elisabeth belliveau's unparalleled strawberry rhupie.
st. james textile museum.
teazer's pub.
jenn's beef jerky.
sackville, new brunswick.

losers touch lobster

2011-07-16T18:20:00.001-04:00

prince lives here.

2011-07-05T10:19:00.005-04:00

breakfast

2011-06-29T00:05:00.001-04:00

mariev & mountains

2011-06-27T22:45:00.004-04:00

black & tan

2011-06-21T15:58:00.003-04:00

minpin with chips

2011-06-12T15:35:00.004-04:00

love you.

2011-05-22T22:33:00.001-04:00

viral paintings: videos in progress

2011-05-17T19:10:00.003-04:00

2011-05-11T05:52:00.001-04:00

bake day.

2011-05-09T21:15:00.002-04:00

2011-05-03T22:20:00.004-04:00

i've been subletting a lot lately.
this was my april heaven - kandis "great taste mad skillz" friesen's place.

2011-04-19T08:04:00.004-04:00

butterflies with fruit / butterflies with human head

2011-04-10T22:17:00.002-04:00

long lives

2011-04-04T08:20:00.007-04:00

finally. a blush that is true to me.

2011-03-28T21:16:00.004-04:00

it did not cost $4.95.
that part was false.

word.

2011-03-25T14:32:00.002-04:00

bread&puppet

2011-03-21T13:17:00.003-04:00

at the bread & puppet museum in glover, vermont.

product placement

2011-03-21T13:00:00.002-04:00

general store in glover, VT.

dog chapel

2011-03-20T23:46:00.008-04:00

brendan took me to the dog chapel on dog mountain in vermont yesterday. it's two parts hilarious to one part touching. it's what a near-death experience can do for you. the guy who built it is not the first crazy man with this idea - my dad thought of a similar thing around christmas time, observe:

free boots

2011-02-23T00:44:00.001-05:00

2011-02-19T19:04:00.001-05:00

cheetos, doritos, pizza and the world

2011-02-13T20:13:00.005-05:00

tiny denim pants

2011-02-07T04:10:00.002-05:00

if you threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see the smallest jeans would be from famous video artist/soccerplayer/comedienne, friend&confidante (of course):
kirsten leenaars

organic response

2011-02-06T15:00:00.002-05:00

i received this superb (and anonymous???) response to lover-in-training.
and i'm going to america.

2011-02-05T03:19:00.002-05:00

2011-02-02T13:18:00.000-05:00

paper tribute.

2011-01-31T13:57:00.001-05:00

lover-in-training

2011-01-30T17:56:00.003-05:00

one thousand tiny betrayals

2011-01-24T11:10:00.001-05:00

2011-01-23T13:25:00.000-05:00

tunnel mountain

2011-01-19T22:09:00.000-05:00

2011-01-16T18:51:00.003-05:00

2011-01-14T18:38:00.001-05:00

luv

2011-01-13T23:30:00.004-05:00

i'm currently in banff for a visual arts residency led by ashley neese called "what's love got to do with it." there's ten of us in the group, together we LOVEBLOG.

2011-01-10T00:01:00.000-05:00

the cosmic companion

2011-01-09T14:17:00.005-05:00

a much-loved handmade gift from birches.

2011-01-05T23:11:00.002-05:00

cover art

2011-01-02T11:56:00.007-05:00

here's another video from my "cover art" series.
"deodorant" is a verbatim duplicate of william wegman's 1973 classic of the same name - with a non-aerosol twist

i'm in the process of remaking wegman's early video works as an exercise in homage, appropriation, originality and personal aesthetic. see his original video here: http://www.wegmanworld.com/splash.html.

(thanks b, for understanding that infusing your entire apartment with the semi-permanent and potentially toxic aroma of synthetic cucumber mist is a necessary -and i would even argue charming- part of my artistic process)

2010-12-29T21:40:00.002-05:00

today's drawings

2010-12-25T21:36:00.003-05:00

valentina in montreal:
what i want and where i want to live:

elisabeth (before):a lion's skeleton from memory (by heart):
smallfortuneteller:
accidental warpzone above fireplace:
snack i want:

xmas dinner

2010-12-25T21:20:00.004-05:00

elisabeth at the rink. years ago.

2010-12-24T13:33:00.005-05:00

2010-12-17T12:24:00.000-05:00

festive raisin hand

2010-12-12T18:29:00.001-05:00

(don't leave holly tingley)

2010-12-09T11:46:00.004-05:00

spells

2010-12-08T23:09:00.002-05:00

2010-12-01T23:02:00.003-05:00

steven on his 40th birthday

2010-11-21T12:45:00.006-05:00

dear jasmine,
steven really knows how to throw the best party ever. only the finest people, food, champagne, live music, cake, slideshow, awards ceremony, buttons, menopausal dj - he pretty much thought of everything. everything but flying you in for the occasion. you were missed.
xo

dialects.

2010-11-13T23:08:00.004-05:00

online tarot.

2010-11-05T20:44:00.002-04:00

my friend valentina sent me THIS link for free online tarot.
it has provided great insights - even when i make crucial spelling errors in my questions.

my brother the winemaker

2010-11-03T20:14:00.001-04:00

2010-10-24T23:16:00.002-04:00

wine secrets revealed.

2010-10-24T13:38:00.000-04:00

how to make award-winning wine:

you will need:

1 recipe (on crumpled paper, handed down from generation to generation)
1 glass of red grape juice
1 glass of white grape juice
1 roll scotch tape (to hold it together)
some paperclips (also for holding together)
1 measuring tape (you know, to measure the fermentation progress)

work. space.

2010-10-21T23:35:00.005-04:00

people, i am still out in the country.

2010-10-17T14:15:00.004-04:00

24 karat gold facial

2010-10-12T00:11:00.000-04:00

drama

2010-10-06T00:38:00.001-04:00

posted

2010-10-01T11:53:00.006-04:00

i received this postcard from my friend steven horwood the other day. it features "the artist" (haha) inadvertently caught midstride in a stranger's vacation shots. now it rests in my temporary workspace.

2010-09-30T23:14:00.005-04:00

half truth

2010-09-30T00:05:00.001-04:00

experience bc entertainment

2010-09-23T22:18:00.004-04:00

2010-09-16T23:14:00.006-04:00

2010-09-10T12:07:00.001-04:00

have you got lonely/lost yet?

2010-09-02T17:45:00.004-04:00

if you are in montreal tomorrow you definitely will want to head to drawn&quarterly for the launch of elisabeth belliveau's new book.
she'll make you laugh, she'll make you cry.
she's a miracle.

tufte library

2010-09-01T11:12:00.004-04:00

if you're looking for a really nice gift for someone, might i suggest one of these:

whether your passion is data analysis or you simply enjoy pretty pictures of charts and graphs, these books contain some truly fascinating examples of stats-gone-visual. i'd lend you my copies but i don't own these yet - they were introduced to me at penland by one of my classmates, philip. but mark my words: the next time i have the luxury of owning a bookshelf, these will be placed centre-stage.

achievements

2010-08-30T01:41:00.000-04:00

some treasures found at penland

2010-08-29T00:39:00.007-04:00

2010-08-25T06:45:00.000-04:00

my very first letterpressed poster.

2010-08-24T00:40:00.002-04:00

not your mama's light lunches.

2010-08-24T00:09:00.009-04:00

these are some of the meals i've been eating here at penland.
i'm told this is how artists eat.

2010-08-22T21:38:00.002-04:00

my type exactly

2010-08-16T22:48:00.002-04:00