Nuit Blanche Montreal 2012!

February 25 21h00 to 3h00 I will be performing shadow puppet tales inspired by the people places things of Montreal. I am located in a building at Bonaventure Metro. If you want to come and find me in this awesome Art Souterrain adventure you can check the map and co-ordinates at their website. I will say hello to the ghosts in person. MMmmhhmmmmm.

Artwork in New Orleans!

And here and here and here and here! are some images of mine on the ginormous billboard project in New Orleans in the 0-so-United-States-of-America.

I love the friendly fence welcoming you into the image, is it over a prison or something?

Cafe Concret 11 at Casa Del Popololololo October 17, 2011

Come to a cabaret of performing objects, musical acts, mystery acts. October 17th Casa Del Popolo.
(time passes and a new year is reached.....)
OOOooooooOOOOooo and here we are performing incomplete shadowy love stories at the Casa back room.

Infinity: Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim

Mmmmmmm we repeat ourselves. I have a new image in ITCH online magazine. It's based in South Africa. Hellooooo South Africa!!

Joy

And here is a recently completed commission. It measures 19.5 x 9.4 inches and is a medley of materials including Indian ink, watercolour and gold leaf. If you look past the surprised canary in the window you can see a wee bit of Venice.

32A

Ooooooo and here it is, a piece of Montreal history. My exact studio address unit 32A, 999 rue Du College, scribbled by the infamous late Guido Molinari in his studio, where he was to meet another well known Canadian painter Tom Hopkins.

Good Art

Sometimes you see something and you think "Wow! I want to cry because that is so good!!". It is a delightfully, delicious experience. Here are 2 examples. One a gorgeous horror vacui intaglio work by the artist Peter Klucik and two is this solo dance piece by Eric Underwood from the British royal Ballet.

A Poem for Fiona Kinsella

I wrote a poem inspired by C Magazine's article on Fiona Kinsella's cake work. mmmmmmMMmmmmm it was also inspired by finding a beautifully kept old book of Nonsense by Edward Lear in someone's sidewalk giveaway garbage on Henri-Julien.




Here it is:
In Deutsch

Die SchwarzwälderkirschtortemitdenAugen sieht mich an.
Es folgt mir durch den Raum, grell behutsam auf meine Gabel und Löffel.

Stop it SchwarzwälderkirschtortemitdenAugen! oder ich fresse dich

Wimpern und Tränen und Gericht und alle.

Englisch

The Black-forest-cake-with-eyes is looking at me.
It follows me about the room, glaring warily at my fork and spoon.

Stop it Black-forest-cake-with-eyes s! or I will eat you up
Eyelashes and tears and judgement and all.

Tales in the forest

On June 10th I will be performing shadowy tales in the forest at Art Camp in Magog. For more details and tickets
checkez ça ---> ArtCamp

Alice in Wonderland

On Saturday May 14 I will be participating in this fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma society. The fashion show will be at Fonderie Darling.
FASHION WONDERLAND
COCKTAIL & WEARABLE ART FASHION SHOW
WHEN: May 14, 2011 - Doors open at 7:00pm (Cash Bar)
WHERE: The Darling Foundry, 745 Ottawa, Old Montreal
TICKETS: $40.00

This Thursday May 12, 2011, a 5-7 at Graff ! S'exposer aux intempéries

Merci Martine Lemieux!

Ah love....It was a rainy day, cold and grim, but as I drove in the tangled GTA traffic that Tuesday April 26th evening the sun began to force her way through. Hello sun!!! The clearing skies were a lovely sunny omen to greet me as I arrived at the Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion week 2011 ( www.getfat,.ca) at 99 Sudbury, Toronto, Ontario.

Here --->X<------ is a strange performance with Martine Lemieux and I and a chair and a Ferris wheel 2 songs. Song One is Habanera by Nana Miskouri and Song Two is La fin de Fête by the experimental noise musician David Lafrance of Montreal.

And here my dear are the Habanera song lyrics and an English translation. mmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmm.

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser,
Et c’est bien in vain qu’on l’appelle
S’il lui convient de refuser

Rien n’y fait, menace ou prière.

L’un parle bien, l’autre se tait.

Et c’est l’autre que je préfère.

Il n’a rien dit mais il me plait.

L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour!

L’amour est enfant de Bohême,

Il n’a jamais jamais connu de loi.

Si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime.

Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

Si tou ne m’aimes pas, si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime,

Mais si je t’aime, si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!
L’oiseau que tu croyais surprendere

Battit d’aile et s’envola.

L’amour est loin, tu peux l’attendre.

Tu ne l’attends pas, il est là.

Tout atour de toi, vite vite,
Il vient, s’en va, puis il revient.

Tu crois le tenir, il t’evite.

Tu crois l’eviter, il te tient.

L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour!

L’amour est enfant de Bohême,

Il n’a jamais jamais connu de loi.

Si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime.

Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!
Si tou ne m’aimes pas, si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime,

Mais si je t’aime, si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

English Translation of Habanera


Love is a rebellious bird
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain
if it suits him not to come.
Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer.

One man talks well, the other's mum;
it's the other one that I prefer.

He's silent but I like his looks.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy's child,
it has never, ever, known a law;

love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you'd best beware! etc.
The bird you thought you had caught
 beat its wings and flew away ...

love stays away, you wait and wait;
when least expected, there it is!
All around you, swift, so swift,
it comes, it goes, and then returns ...

you think you hold it fast, it flees
you think you're free, it holds you fast.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy's child,
it has never, ever, known a law;

love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you'd best beware!

O that's printeresting......

Hahahahahahah heee heeee heeee well Jason Urban came to town and led a workshop in 3-D print making. I made an edition of Seas of Change soup cans and Selling Silence iPods. Check out his website (here is the Graff excerpt) . It makes me love printmaking even more than I do already, which is basically ridiculous amounts! Yummmm contemporary printmaking......