Vancouver is a very young city. Some are of the opinion that, since Vancouver has seen so little history, it is void of personality and characteristic. Perhaps so. With only a few truly outstanding works of architecture, the Vancouver cityscape does seem rather dull. However, have you ever really paid attention [...]

In my youth, I always wondered what it would be like to be God; to be omniscient and to have a bird’s eye view of all that is around me - a snow globe of sorts. After all, the earth is spherical and rotates all day long… It would certainly be most amusing [...]

“I’ve come to visit the painter Jorge Cardarelli in his spacious studio in the Chamberi neighbourhood of Madrid… I met Cadarelli about eleven or twelve years ago… Being born in 1971, he was very young then. He had just held, or was about to hold, his first individual exhibition in the nearby [...]

It was a beautiful, crisp September morning as I looked up from my Wall Street Journal to watch the sunrise over the East River. It was a peaceful moment, a pause to reflect on the beauty of the landscape and my place in life. That was the first thing I remember about 9/11, [...]

I live very much inside my head. In there, I can create my own phastasmagoric realities, a universe vibrant with life, void of strife. Emancipation was the only reason I paid little attention in class. Yet, as I aged, I gradually, unbeknownst to even myself, physical realities grounded my hypothetical possibilities. [...]

I have always wondered how the brothers Gabriel and Victor Gomez, or The Wolf Boys, with their hypertrichosis syndrome, got on with school. Equipped with neither consideration nor compassion, most children can be very cruel, with their sharp tongues and stinging words. How did the brothers’ react to the jeers of their peers? [...]

The last time I stepped onto school grounds with the intention of attending a class was in 2004. Today, as I passed by throngs of youngsters making their way to school - some gleefully, some glumly - I was reminded of that thrill I experienced without fail every semester - that earnest desire to do [...]

Recently, I have been wondering about the control I have in my life. I like to think that I have complete control in my life - in my actions and my undertakings, but since life revolves largely, if not entirely, around cause and effect, can I truly say my actions are not mere reactions? To [...]

 
 
 
“[My work] unfurls across the panel, revealing a narrative like the story in a novel. It is most often a personal narrative, autobiographical in content that informs and is found in the finished work… The landscapes become maps or barometers of feeling, internalised responses, psychologically defined spaces while simultaneously being reflections on perception, light and [...]

I have never been to Ethiopia, and, before today, I never wanted to go at all. All that changed when I stumbled across Joey Lawrence’s Abyssinia series. Much has been covered of the nation in the media; the lingering image in my head is that of the 1985 famine: starving children with bloated [...]