In speaking with my grandmother last night, she talked about an early work of mine she has where I broke the bounds of the photographic frame by drawing and colouring – extending the image beyond the photograph. Her comment – this piece was…
There seems to be a move back to photography as a document. Perhaps this is a backlash or result of the artifice or rather, the perceived artifice that digital photography and programs like Photoshop can achieve. The odd thing about this (mis)perception is…
I’ve been slowly reading a book called The Power Of Now by Echkart Tolle which surprisingly I am finding resonance with. I say surprisingly because I tend not to like spiritual concepts forced on me. I prefer to arrive at my own understanding…
Occasionally I come up for air like a dolphin or whale and manage to get a little perspective on some area of my life. It’s usually at those times that I’m taken aback by the complexity and burdensome nature of my existence. If…
Hokay, so I finally worked on an image for this post. It did feel good and frivolous but man it was kind of like pulling teeth from a chicken – strange thing to say I know but I’m sure I’ve heard this phrase…
I’ve got this personal task that keeps popping up each month as a kind of spiritual growth reminder. Stop Swimming Upstream. Another way of putting it would be Go With The Flow. As you might guess, this is quite hard for me –…
Like a surfer, I’m still struggling to get past the crest of the wave of tasks I’ve got rolling around under me and I’m determined to do it. I know I could just ignore them and do creative work instead but so much…
I’ve been doing a lot of talking for… wow, going on 9 months now, and not so much producing images. I’m feeling really bad about that. It feels like a long lost life, oh so long ago. To be fair, its not like…
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and planning around my future and the future in general. You know, the usual stuff – finances, career, life, home, health etc. I’ve been doing this so that I can lay the groundwork – the…
I was just emailing my nephew David about his interest in photography and art and any recommendations I might have and it occurred to me that even though I typically only think of myself in terms of the here and now – the…
I was just thinking about momentum and how it can often be difficult to build momentum in the things I’m passionate about. Why is this? It’s not for lack of interest. It’s just that every little thing conspires to get between me and…
I was reading an interesting article in NewScientist which caught my eye about an elusive mental state commonly known as “flow”. It seems for some time now people have reported achieving this flow state typically after they have become fairly proficient at whatever…
I read a post by Chris Guillebeau some time ago in which he wrote about building a legacy. At the time I was beginning to feel at loose ends about my creative efforts and starting to think they were perhaps valueless in the…
When I was a little kid the most important question to me was Why? “Why do dey” is what I used to ask says my grandmother – I think I was 3 years old. Still, WHY has stuck with me my entire life….
Well the majority of my “spring” clean is over – but man was that ever difficult. It’s prompted me to be kind of pissed with myself for accumulating so much material. The emotional as well as time effort this has cost to process…
January is always such a weird time for me. Its post the december/holiday crazies of unbelievable last minute, crushing nonsensical deadline – client work and its invariably a time of …. nothing. Its like you’ve just run off a cliff. All the rushing lead up…
Its been a tough haul for me lately. We – my small nuclear family and I – did manage for the first time ever during the holidays to carve out a solid week of relax time just for us, alone in the great…
Just finished reading an interesting article on The New York Times site about innovation and the evolution of the Internet Protocol standard. At the end of the article the author finishes off explaining that Neoteny – his favorite word, means the retention of…
So here’s my problem: my life isn’t so fun right now and I think it should be. A lot of what I do, well lately almost all of what I do seems like endless drudgery. I only get a small amount of pleasure…
I’ve been mulling over the goals in my life – trying to get to the bottom of them – the motivations behind them. I’ve noticed all of them result from limits in my life. Some limits are self-imposed, others are assumed and others…
I’ve been overwhelmed lately. Not just in the light party conversation – oh I feel overwhelmed – kind of way, but in the – holy shit I’m drowning, wake up in night sweets kind of way. It happens to me from time to…
I spend a great deal of time paying close attention to trends and new developments in a lot of different areas. I tend to oscillate between thinking everything is going to be alright – that we are heading toward an altruistic society that…
Oh, if that were only true. It seems my life is governed by fear. In reflection yesterday on my general fear, I began to itemize the main issues I’m fearful of. Without airing my dirty laundry – too much: fear of money, fear…
Today is my mothers 70th birthday… if she were still alive. She died of cancer in 1996 after struggling to live for a year. During that time I had a mental breakdown of sorts and also struggled with who I was as a…
I’m sitting here listening to I Live In A Suitcase by Thomas Dolby and reading Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd where he is describing the early stages of our universe and contrasting it with now – “Planets and suns cluster together to…
I’ve always observed the flow of things. Like predicting the flow of traffic around me while I drive – to plot my optimum path through it. I do this while driving on the 401 for example. I do the same thing when I…
I need to be clear. Good abstract is NOT so easy. Yes, just about anyone can make abstract work in whatever medium you choose. Go for it, you can do it too. We all did it as little children and imbued it with…
I’m listening to Kid For Today by Boards of Canada, one of my favourite bands, and it is very successfully calming me down. I’ve been feeling very tense lately, probably because of the intense schedule and list of important projects I’m juggling at…
To Strive, To See, To Find And Not Yield – Ulysses, Lord Alfred Tennyson Recently my grandmother quoted this to me as an explanation of my character. It’s a quote from Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson. I have to say I feel a…
As I work on populating my new site with my images, I’m struck by the date clusters of the images I’ve made. Then it hit me – they correlate closely with major emotional and physical milestones in my life. 1994 – split with…
