Musings

  • The Long Game

    Our team (of 4 players for the finals but 6 for the season plus our captain) won our division in squash singles in the Toronto & District league! This was a big deal for me. Let the record show that my very first year playing competitively in 2018/19 I did not win a single match…

  • unsettled

    I made this (above) with AI, which inspired this: We would have, had he lived long enough, retired to an airstream and travelled. That was the story anyway. I went along with it because it was as plausible as anything else. More plausible than what actually happened. But retirement was a long way off. We…

  • The woods are lovely, dark and deep…

    This is an image I made with AI and as I made it this came to mind: The woods are lovely, dark and deep… Long before he died he used to quote this line from the poem before I ever knew it. I don’t know why or even what the context was, for at the…

  • Those things that are unsettling, that are just in our heads.

    I made this image with AI. I’ve enjoyed using AI to work out some of those things I am preoccupied. Not that I am preoccupied by dolls – haha – but things that are disturbing. Things you see that you know maybe you shouldn’t get quite so affected by. A kind of.. liminal space somehow.…

  • Wrong Directions and Rabbit Holes

    It’s January 17th. I’ve missed, let’s see, three personal deadlines to write a blog post for a project I want to do called 52 Truths. The idea was to post every week of the year, whether it be writing and/or images. Well, I guess the first truth of the year is the creative beast is…

  • [WARNING: CRIME FICTION]

    I should probably state up front that I am someone who is extremely challenged by the idea of having to kill anything, (mosquitos being the exception). I have put down more than one animal, and it was extremely heartbreaking and difficult. I believed I was doing it for the right reason, but after witnessing a…

  • Some Days it’s Like This

    I think I learned about four different ways to make something like a tornado in Blender and it probably took a month to finally get it the way I wanted for this image. Sadly the time it took is probably more related to the fact I’m using a 2015 Mac laptop. Again, this was designed…

  • The Lost Art of Waiting

    This piece was originally conceived specifically to be viewed on instagram, if not on instagram or if instagram changes, this is/was a feed-based platform where the video would autoplay and virtually be indistinguishable from a still image. The idea was that you’d see it, and the subtle movement would cause you to to wonder if…

  • But Is It a Gas Station? Shoot! (Part 2)

    Part one is here. You’ll see I strayed a ways away from my original concept. I don’t know if there is anything I have done so far that caused me as much thinking. Of course, there is always the thinking around the concept, and then the thinking around the build, and then the shooting and…

  • The Abandoned Gas Station Build (Part 1)

    The project I am currently working on. Lately, with my photography, I’ve been focusing on mood and building that mood by using signifiers that represent meaning both personally and universally. This landed me on a gas station at night. I’ve shot gas stations before. I had wanted to do one of my rabbit head pictures…

  • Terribly normal

    This image was inspired by an image shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a woman in a mental institute in 1937 (see below). His is better of course. His whole series is a fascinating but of photography. The article I read said that his photos helped shape perception of mental health as the people in the…

  • Floor Moulding

    Edit: This is not an interesting post in the least. I think at the time I was trying to document my process – must have read somewhere or other this is something artists should do. So, well you can’t be too precious about these things – sometimes you just got to do it. I’ve left…