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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Meet the New Owners

Island Framery

Saturday, November 07, 2009

The Germinator

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Omen, November 1st

omen, november 1st

Life On Mars

life on mars

Beauty

beauty

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Grandma Henri

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I miss her.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

a fungus

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birthday hike

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Saturday, October 03, 2009

But Being With You Doesn't

Being With You Makes Me Smile

"she just does this part-time so she doesn’t get bored"

The Omnivore extends a hearty congratulations to Gypsy Martin on her recently published short story, "Mall Story" Page 22 of The Right Eyed Deer, Issue Four.

Upon reading it, I felt like I'd just been sucker-punched, which is a good thing.

Sparks That Set the Flames

I'm uncomfortably excited and pleased with a piece that I recently finished. The composition, materials, and the overall tone of the finished product all converged on an unexpected sweet spot for me.

Admittedly, a lot of the work I prefer to do is hard to look at. This piece feels a bit more easy on the eyes, yet has something to say, yet also isn't heavy handed in getting that done. And, I liked doing it. Dare I say a triumph? Or at least a triumph on a smaller scale...like a 5th-graders-end-of-the-year pizza party?

Elisha Didn't Get To Say Goodbye


Pammela Springfield, at Cannibals Gallery, had a vision for a Day of the Dead show for the month of October. I started working on Elisha Didn't Get to Say Goodbye with that in mind. Actually, I had been wrestling with a completely different idea, of showing a Elisha in tears, staring at the empty robe laying on the road left behind by Elijah, who moments before was caught up in a fiery chariot. I couldn't really wrap my creative skull around that...seemed like it might be better expressed through cgi/special effects...but then that might have some ObiWan Kenobi connotations that I don't want. One morning, before the concerns of the day crept in, I had a eureka moment of seeing the trees expressing this event instead. For me, a tree uprooted and flying up into the air seems somehow more improbable, than your average everyday rapture. The trees can convey a human figure, and grouped together, or alone, they can provide a tone of companionship or solitude. And that literal motion of being uprooted poses some deep connotative territory for further exploration.

I find that my non-art life has been competing all the more defiantly for my attention, so it is a real gift to be excited about my creative work. This motivation and pleasure with my work is probably exactly what I need to carry me through until things calm back down in the other realms.

Monumental Irony

brethren dwelling in unity

The top of the Peace Arch at the Canada-U.S. border crossing says, "Brethren Dwelling Together In Unity".

You stay on your side, and we'll stay on ours...unity!

Tic Tac, Time's A Wastin'

tic tac time's a wastin'

All In Favor?

all in favor?

Lanterns, by Wendy Vonderahe

Lanterns, by Wendy Vonderahe

Our friend Wendy painted this for Joy's birthday. I think it's fantastically fun!

Animals We Saw

animals we saw

Vote Now. The Future Is In Your Hands

cell phone disguised as flask

flask disguised as cell phone

You Might Not Need That Thing You Thought You Needed

you might not need that thing you thought you needed

No Way To Start a Saturday Morning

no way to start a saturday morning

This actually happened last Saturday, but it has taken me a full week to recover.

Not seen are the chipped edges on Joy's beautiful blue bowl that flipped over when I was catching myself from hitting my head on the counter after stubbing my toe on a stray sharp metal refrigerator part.

--Chris