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5 Block Artist Portrait Galleries Montral

Janet Werner, the girls and the MAC

These are portraits of women I want to invite to my birthday party. They will come wired with harlequin mindsets, Bristol Cream, spikes and all kitted out in the unique fashion sensibilities of the irrepressible Québécoise.

5 Block Exhibition Galleries

Paloma Torres. Conceptual. Ceramics. Sculpture.

... that rare and magical eye/brain art experience, that sumptuous moment when all connection with the body disappears, and the electrical connections between seeing and understanding glow...

5 Block Religion Street Art

Let us Spray . . .

How do people deal with endings, and beginnings, and then endings again? Apparently approaches do vary. Some peoples’ brains implode just thinking about living on a little planet in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, while others prefer to channel their incredulity into more widely recognized religious iconography, replete with dances, spins, flashy clothing and arcane headgear. Regardless of everyone’s entré, the whole “what can possibly be next?” mystery seems to remain quite unknowable. Rather than dwell upon unknowables and […]...

5 Block Five from the Archive Street Art

Did you ever do something so stupid . . .

Have you ever managed to survive something so very stupid, that the thought bubbles above everyone else’s heads are still screaming, “You are too dumb to exist. Please give your seat to the next available person with an IQ over 40”?

artist

Out

YES to VES

On a damp January morning in 2020 I came upon a paint jam in London’s Leake Tunnel – a mural painting event sponsored by “WOM Collective’” an organization whose mission is to support women in the arts, particularly street art. Artists answered the call...

HERS: “Where do you draw the line?”

The Last Stand

And

Irreverence.

The British election is looming and true to my promise in a recent blog post "I could . . . vote", I went searching for more new political graffiti in Brick Lane, London’s mecca for up-to-the-minute street art proclamations and protestations.

Everything OK?

Desperate Lines

About

The things I carried . . .

It could be word association. Or I just like the title of Tim O’Brien’s book, “The Things They Carried” because it reminds me of the clutter jammed deep in my backpack. I can live without the novel’s guns, violence, grief, and . ....

Just like a Virgin?

I COULD . . .vote

The latest post. Straight off the cliff edge.

Suspense,

Hanging

and Fear of

Falling

The whole idea of being suspended, of standing on an edge, and of possibly free falling, is unsettling. It is counterintuitive. We all harbour a powerful and involuntary reflex to save ourselves – we simply just want to stay alive.

This collection of artwork unnerves us with the images of suspension and the possibility of falling. While the visual narrative hints at disaster it also subtly pokes fun at our entitled expectation of safety and our inalienable faith in perfect balance, happy outcomes and perhaps even a perfect world – that is, right before the unexpected, that proverbial deadly bus, appears.

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Three August highlights