Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

Everest, 2025, 4:37, experimental boxing documentary, screened at Antimatter, Victoria B.C., October 23, 2025, photo by Dave Johnson




Everest is an experimental boxing documentary. The work is structured as a series of four fights. The fights are introduced by a commentator, followed by a spotlight on boxers, then three or four bouts until finally, Everest, the fight of the century. The work is constructed from a found black and white 16mm, non-theatrical circulating film from the 1940’s? An 800 ft. film with a cartoon, girl singer and three short documentary subjects which might have been shown in pre-television days in a community hall. The fight segment of the film was cut into one-foot sections which were scraped, scratched, misted and splattered, imagery of boxing injury, then reassembled with a commentator, the girl singer from the first film segment and cut together out of sequence in a rhythmic way to make an experimental boxing documentary.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

The Hurricane Fiona set, four works, 2025






The Hurricane Fiona set. 

1) Fiona Over Water, 58 x 58 cms, oil painting on plywood, 2) Fiona Sable Island 1, 31 x 34 cms, painted construction, oil paint and metal on plywood, 3Fiona Sable Island 2, 31 x 34 cms, painted construction, oil paint and metal on plywood, 4) Fiona Sable Island 3, 31 x 34 cms painted construction, oil paint, metal, screen mesh and roofing shingle on plywood.



 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Center Block Cribbage Board, c. 2000, approx. 36 cms. long, 13 cms. wide and 4 cms. deep, constructed from copper roofing material on a wood base, private collection Ottawa


The Center Block Cribbage Board is memento of the Canadian Houses of Parliament in Ottawa. It is constructed with oxidized copper roofing salvaged from the 1997 Center Block roof restoration.
 

Musical Promotion Can, kinetic sound sculpture, circa 2000, collection the artist



The Musical Promotion Can is a kinetic, sound sculpture constructed from a Clarks Beans coin saving can, commonly distributed to children in Canadian schools in the 1960's, attached to a modified music box works, set into a wood base covered with vintage linoleum.