Found Everything

Bodies and the How of Seeing

On Jon Pylypchuk’s Ghosts

Looking at Jon’s ghosts, made during the pandemic and cast in bronze, I feel again this grief that just won’t quit.
The Wholly Trinity

No artist since Arcimboldo has gone as far as Logan in grafting together the human, the animal and the botanical.
“A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled Into The Sun”

How is one assembled? How does one assemble themselves? What do we do when the pieces oppose one another?
“Holding a line in your hand”

Amid all of the stress, strife and suffering there were admittedly a few bright spots and one of them surely had to be a painting exhibition titled “Holding a line in your hand” at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
“Picasso: Painting the Blue Period”

They are, rather, the most straightforwardly humanist of any of Picasso’s paintings. They are meditations on what is most basic: flesh, food, drink, earth, sunlight. They depict human beings to sight, touch and taste.
Bonavista Biennial

Organizing a festival during a pandemic must have been a massive logistical feat, but the experience of it almost allowed me to forget that.