Shifting emblematic subjects nestled amongst a luscious viscera seductively laid out with evident tenderness – oscillating between pastoral idylls and tortured dreams.
Enveloped in a precariously quizzical appearance that induces a self-reflective quasi-narrative of intimate metonyms.
Painting, at its heart – like all images en grande tenue, offer fetishized scenarios of baffled desire which are endlessly rehearsed [...]
Joyous Sensualism
Dreams Begin Responsibilities
The original pitch-pine doors are everywhere colored a bitter chocolate, the balusters are yellow, and you walk on polished boards which, like the parquet in the dining-room – have been there since the house was built.
It is not too fanciful to say that the staircase and stairwell are themselves a perfect foil of belief – [...]
Hibernation and Inebriation
The ambiguity of human awareness, faithful to forethought, planning and tender precision.
An oblique quality at once timeless and august. Designed rather than composed in mental and emotional depth.
Hibernation and inebriation seem to be the most popular ways of surviving winter, while cheerfully indulging in some creative pursuit – with numerous pauses for a glass of [...]
Canada After Dark
There is a condescension to the inhabitants which confronts the visitor – a lowering of sights to meet the eyes, which appear to know not what they see.
Where independence of judgment is still an ideal, informing the pursuit of atmospheric nationalism, when the quality of criticism could be a form of aspiration.
A vast cosmetic embalming, [...]
