Invitation to WITNESS

I hope any of you reading this who are in, or going to be in, the Vancouver area will please come by the opening on the evening of Thursday, March 1st. If you can't make it that night, call me and maybe I can meet you there during gallery hours. I'm very pleased to be part of this show.

Francesca Woodman & Chloe

I was scanning my black & white negatives when I came across another tree portrait that I couldn't help but colour. I thought it a good opportunity to display a photographer I recently discovered, Francesca Woodman, and a lovely blog that featured a photo by that photographer. Francesca died at the age of 22.

Okuyama Print

Katherine & I happened to be in a thrift store, dropping off stuff, trying to reclaim some space in our home, when I saw this sitting on a pile of old photos. It is not a photo, of course, but a woodblock print by Gihachiro Okuyama. He lived during the first half of the 20th century. I paid two dollars for the print.

It is humbling to think of the years of dedication to a craft, only to be left on a discard pile in a thrift store. I feel very lucky to have found it.

Birch Tree - Tinted

Winter is a good time for scanning old film to digital. I couldn't help throwing some colour into this black & white image.

Etta James

Katherine tells me that someone once said, "All art aspires to music." If that is true, I know I aspire to the kind of feeling Etta James regularly attained. She passed away the other day.

Iona Grass

I didn't get the early morning light but the sun was low enough long enough that I managed to have a glorious morning wandering my favorite place and, once again, finding something I thought worthwhile.

Happy New Year

May all good things be in store for 2012.