I wander the streets. I do not know where I am going. I seem to have lost my bearings, yet all I see seem strangely familiar. Perhaps I traipsed through this street a long time ago. I must have. Without much thought, I turn to the left. More of the same. I turn to the [...]

The audience detects Photorealism in Hyung Koo Kang’s work, but Kang is not a photorealist. Even though he admits that Chuck Close left an impression on his work, Kang’s work is fundamentally different from Photorealism, which transfers the photo into a painting. This is because Kang’s work is devoid of a preexisting photo of what [...]

Growing up, I would kill various insects and worms without a second thought. They were wee pests in my rather dubious understanding of nature. Then came Biology class. Oh how I hated it. But I remember that one fateful day very clearly - the compound eyes of a dragonfly. I was mesmerised by the thousands [...]

[Simon Johan explores] the human predilection toward fantasy and emotional fulfillment… through the depictions of animals who mirror human conventions. A pair of dreamy foxes in a park during a snowstorm appears to be crying; a llama with a poodle haircut exhibits flamboyance. He creates mythical landscapes that hover in a space between fantasy and [...]

I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, they are always in full colour. The environment is always fully formed - each detail, each intricacy laid out with utmost clarity. Unbound by the physical constraints of reality, it is exuberant and phantasmagoric. I never want to leave…
Scott Everingham creates environments that are at [...]

Employing theatrical makeup, elaborate costumes, props and digital manipulation, [Yasumasa] Morimura fastidiously refashions himself as heroines from the canon of painting… [like Frida Kahlo]. Yet, the artifice - and ultimately the failure - of his transformations are always conspicuous. By imitating though never quite becoming [her], Morimura unravels notions of male and female, east and [...]

Today, the weather might be extreme (by mild Portland standards) but the tough conditions in these photos give some rare and valuable comparative scale to the world’s pressing economic and existential problems. It’s all the more poignant as the context comes through the extremely hazardous lens of extreme crab fishing. Sure, times are going get [...]

It is mid March. I stepped into the garden. Flower buds appearing, green grass replacing the soggy ground. Growth is everywhere. Colour is everywhere. It will soon be Spring.
 

Paintings by British Columbian artist Todd Clark.

I was always fascinated with shadows. I liked how it followed me around, playing peekaboo with each turn I make. Sometimes tall and lean, other times short and stout - my personal funhouse mirror. I also liked to think that he was my twin brother, that he was the one leaving the footprints that trailed [...]

My name is Terry Fox. I am 21 years old, and I am an amputee. I lost my right leg two-and-a-half years ago due to cancer. The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then [...]