Monday, February 13, 2017

My Canadian Forces Artist Program stills on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132785798@N03/

I've put up all my CFAP pix on Flickr. The sets begin at CFB Halifax/Stadaconna, September 7, they observe life on board HMCS Halifax and on sea exercises, then our arrival at Norfolk, Virginia, September 17, 2015. This document is a prelude to the high def immersive vid I will produce over the next year and a half.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Shattered House, American Linoleum Version, 2015




This is the sixth large version of the Shattered House. The Shattered Houses are based on a photograph of a smashed and distorted, but still standing house on Duffus Street in the aftermath of the 1917 Halifax explosion and come out of my Disaster Ship series last shown at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 1998. Penny found this particular linoleum on Amazon. The significance of American linoleum as the 100th anniversary of the explosion nears struck me as a workable and appropriate metaphor in the evolving series.