Friends,

Three quick things: It's been a few weeks already but I've still got some glow from the Vancouver Art Book Fair. As an introvert, latching myself to a table for consecutive days with thousands of people passing through is no joke. Often with these kinds of events it takes me weeks to recover but there was so much good energy in that room, I actually came out of it with a positive charge. Thanks to all the friends and strangers who stopped by and took things home. There's nothing quite like the conversations that happen when people are holding the work.

It was exciting to bring hellaniche to life in its initial form and feel the interest and support from curious people who seem to get it. I'm feeling inspired and fired up to develop the project more and share new things over the year ahead as things unfold.

It's a special kind of gift when good friends connect and multiply their talents through a project. This is currently happening in the form of Aimée Henny Brown's collection of new works, Thresholds at Propellor Studio's Granville Island gallery. Familiar with the work of all involved, I could loosely imagine how things might intertwine. Still, I was taken aback by the coherence of it — the way it all resonated the moment I crossed the threshold. Thresholds opened yesterday and runs through July 15th, 2026. Don't miss this. There will be an event to close the show around that time. More deets to come.

Umwelt Collider 09 (2025) will be appearing together with works from 21 other artists including Alastair Bird, Laura Clark, Sandeep Johal, Barbara Strigel, Carson Ting and Ken Lum in the latest of Mark Mizgala's Duct Tape Gallery pop-up exhibitions. The show, Other Houses explores the idea of house and home.

"...More than just architecture, the home is a container for life itself—a place where beginnings, middles and endings unfold."

My contribution, a hand-cut collage made from images from my own archive, combines photographs made in Vancouver with an image of one of the jackrabbit homesteads I mentioned back in Transmission 03.

Opening Reception: (Today!) Saturday, June 6th, noon to 4pm
Gallery hours: Sunday, June 7th, noon to 4pm

The Artworks Building | Main floor, 237 East 4th Avenue
(Just east of Main Street)

That's it for the minute, more soon.

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