Then It All Goes Poof

Come here, I want to show you something she says. You nod and follow. It’s strange, as the back parking lot behind Radwin-Sheefler is not a place you’d expect this person, your supervisor, to bring you. Rounding a corner you’re astonished to see everyone you’ve ever known gathered there. Hundreds and hundreds of people standing in silence. You […]

Street art selection

Top : Montreal Middle : Ottawa Bottom two: Saskatoon

Imagine Summer

Her name was Imagine Summer. She was one of LeVram’s graduate students during the early work on the Calculix. She stands out in memory not least because of her nearly purple eyes that I’d gaze at as I passed her in the hallway. I liked to pretend she was pretending not to notice me. A […]

The Quadrogram

We discovered a special place in the Gatineau Hills, at Meech Lake, with good views and good energy. Almost a sacred spot. A symbol came to me and named itself ‘quadrogram’. Nested diamonds, blue white and red. Weeks later I returned to mark that spot with a glyph of the quadrogram. Forest graffiti. Hopefully the tree […]

Ride 15-2b

It was a fall sunday and I was on a freak ride, humid air running like silk over the arms, when I located a hobo trail leading up to the smoldering coals of a lawn chair bonfire. I poked around a bit before going on, and arrived at an abandoned train bridge with no signs […]