Here is a painting i did last semester. cow dung and clay base with acrylic paint, dyes and tumeric. Part of the AngloIndian series for my grad project. I left the edges of raw canvas exposed. Some people seem to like the exposed canvas others not. My advisor argues that it makes the image seem like a fragmant rather than as a complete image. My retort has been that i want to create a fragmented feeling with some of the images to stress that image series are fragments of memories and impressions that encompass the AngloIndian experience. What do you think? and Why? I'm interested in how it's coming across. Is the exposed canvas too distracting?

Here are two paintings used at the Place recently. The first is an old classic by James Nesbitt. It was used to illustrate church community as discussed by Randy Hein on Sunday Jan 6/07. The second painting is by Vanessa Carter. The dot pattern has parallels to Northern Australian aboriginie paintings i've seen. I can't remember what sunday this painting was used for.

In my spare time i've been working on a canadiana mix of music and images for my cousins in Belgium. what started as a quick mix cd has grown in a multiple disc project. It's been hard to try to emcompass everything. I've got some obvious classic slash stereotypical canadiana that needs to be added like Stompin Tom Connors, Neil Young, Guess Who, Joni Mitchell, Ashley MacIsaac, Gordon Lightfoot, The Hip, Spirit of the West... that sort of stuff. But i've also got Of Montreal, The Unicorns, all fragments of the Broken Social Scene, Hayden, Constantines, and some hip hop. I'm having issues with bluegrass and country, just because i don't really know it well. Of course my bias towards certain genres or particular artists does come into play. Sorry no Jann Arden or Rush has made the mix, although i'm teasing the idea of adding "tom sawyer" just for fun. I'm trying to be as fair as possible. I want some french language inclusions even though i don't understand more than a few words of french. Also added are some audio clips of Canadians like Russell Peters, William Shatner. I'd like short audio clips from degrassi high, Coaches Corner, Kids in the Hall, David Suziki, SCTV, etc, but i've found it difficult with my limited patience for the internet. If you guys have any or find any, send it my way please via: canadiandrifter@hotmail.com.....
In my search i've been suprised by a few artists i didn't realize were canadian. The Band has a mix of canadian arrtists, The Stampeders (although the name seems so obviously Albertan now that i know. In case you don't recognize the name they did "sweet city woman"). I didn't know Rufus Wainwrigt had a tinge of canadian in him (but maybe you all knew).... Anyways i'm rambling about a subject only Kingsley and I are interested in. so i'll shut up now and go do some real work like my fun Geography assignment... fun....

Banksy. The British guerilla artist fighting the good fight.(click on image to enlarge in case you didn't know. trust me it's worth the 10 seconds) I'm tempted to screenprint this on a shirt, although i'm not sure whether that would that be ironic or hypocritical?