Transmission 02 | 06.16.24
Output: I’ve been heads-down the last couple of months finalizing a body of work I’ll be showing with our friends Propellor at their gallery and studio on Granville Island. I’m honoured and excited for the opportunity to have my work intertwine with the beautiful work Pam, Toby and Nik create and curate in that space – there’s a radiant creative pulse I feel as soon as I step through the door.
The show, “Seen” spans from the last months of 2017 to this past week, offering a glimpse of my current practice at the intersection of parallel streams of work. The show includes three components: a new publication, “Umwelt,” photographs, and selections from a new collage series. If you are Vancouver local, I invite you to join us for the opening next week on Friday, June 21st from 6-9PM. It’s a full moon and the first full day of summer so I’m hoping we’ll tap into that energy. If you can’t make it but would still like to pop by and check out the space and work, there will be opportunities. More details on dates and open hours to come.
Sharing and Loss
We lost my Dad seven years ago and in the years since, I’ve found one of the most significant ways I miss him is when I think to share something. I still have that impulse to email or message him something I think he’d enjoy. To me, this connection through sharing is one of the great gifts of love and friendship – it also happens to be at the heart of what I’m after with these little dispatches.
I recently watched a short film on a Robert Henke1 project where he (and a team including artist and engineer, Anna Tskhovrebov) employs a small squad of 40+ year-old Commodore computers to perform music and visual art. I promise you, it’s one of the impressively nerdy things going and while the music itself might not have been my Dad’s jam2 he most certainly would have been giddy with what Henke has pulled off and the absurdity (audacity?) of the objective. Happy Father’s Day, Dad — may the massive earthshaking 30hz 8-bit bass reach you wherever you are.
PBS has a great short on Detroit artist3 Sydney G. James. Steadfast and focused in her principles, Sydney seems to embody (in spades) a unique grit and vision I’ve noticed in a number Detroit artists I follow. Trust, she’s not messing around. So inspired.
While working on the final leg of preparation for this show, I’ve been bumping the two Kim Gordon solo records pretty obsessively. When “No Home Record” came out in 2019, I listened to it for sure, but it didn’t hook me just yet. It took her most recent record, “The Collective4” (and the headspace I’m in) to create the left-right combo that I’ve just kept on repeat. No one makes me laugh out loud (and thrash) at 21st-century capitalism quite like Kim Gordon is able to – at 71 years old, no less. So hard.
That’s it for the minute. I May be back later in the week for a quick one and a playlist.
✌️D
Although…he did have a copy of Wendy Carlos’ “Switched on Bach” in his collection when we were growing up which now appears to me as much cooler than my teenage self had initially appraised it.
And co-founder of BLKOUT Walls Mural Festival
Here’s Gordon and her kick-ass band on Kimmel back in April