The Empty Mirror
These photographs are of worlds built with my own hands. The concept of how space affects internal life is central to my process.
Evening Shores
Original Watercolours
Watercolour prints on Canvas
Old Cock Road
Depicts a small pedestrianized street in Halifax, which links Commercial Road to Market Street.
Lost Heartbeats
Bold and high contrast colors intended to be the visual equivalent of a heartbeat, one that is lost because it was not taken.
Detached From Color
Photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response.
Summer Study
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.
in cemento veritas
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
Jellyfish and Microbeads
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
Peppers for a Stew
This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.
Covidscapes
These images were done during our Covid isolation.
Time
Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.
A Spring Collection
A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.
3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy
The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.
Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Diversity Dance
Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
Birdhouse in the Birches
A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.
The Pulitzer Prize Winner
A review of the two memoirs by Frank McCourt; “Angela’s Ashes” and “Tis.” These were moving accounts of his upbringing in Limerick, Ireland.
Sex, Fascism, and So Forth
A book review of Master Lovers from the small press Outpost 19 in San Francisco.
Modernist Poetry
Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.
Profiles in Honesty
A book review of Writers and Missionaries, by Adam Shatz.
Not my circus, not my monkeys
Visiting the fascinating world of idioms and expressions and how they convey dozens of cultural subtleties and concepts.
A freelance journalist’s take on transitioning to dystopian fiction writing
The dystopian genre has produced some of history’s most iconic books, like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World…
The Whole Wide World
A review of The Whole Wide World. I was surprised that my sister did not like it all, so I tried to examine why it impacted me so much.
House of Hunger/Book Review
Lexi Kent-Monning’s book review of House of Hunger by Uzodinma Okehi.
Stories from the Darp
A review of Pinching Zwieback, stories by Mitchell Toews.
From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope
This is a review of Mehreen Ahmed’s novel, Incandescence published by Impspired Magazine, UK and written by Chitra Gopalakrishnan.
The Corner Store
A local landmark, a collection of antique merchandising gear, and what Tuffer Gibson calls his baby, that’s the Corner Store.
Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
A review of Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.
On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself
“Write what you know” is common writing advice. But how do we make this mean something and make it a part of our own writing?
Jean Paul
One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Problematic Pollock: Why is he painting on the rug?
Exploring some of the ways in which cultural history has glorified Pollock’s work and turned it into a monolithic iconic entity.
Eyes on the Prize
Before there was transgender there was One-Eyed Charley.
An Inconvenient Truth
A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.
ar·chi·tec·ture
A timely twisted tale where the past becomes the future for an architect, a devil, and Shakespeare riding beams of light.
Wretch
A story of a son looking for redemption after committing a grievous mistake years ago.
Jack in the Box
Do we ever really know our parents, or do we only think we do? Can an adult have a “coming of age” experience?
April’s Foul Day
This is a short story on grief and loss.
Oh Lucky One
Welcome to the aftermath – Our hero from last June’s ‘Minor Marvel’ in Literary Heist is back.
The Carny Contessa
A successful Hollywood writer, meets an unconventional protagonist and writes a new “chapter” for his career.
Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?
The accidental death of a child and the impact upon his family and his father’s lover.
Woowo
A teenage girl learns of her grandfather’s horrifying death.
Night Shift
A cynical store clerk working the night shift refuses to assist a 14-year-old prostitute who is later murdered by her pimp.
Enough is enough
A hospital nurse has an opportunity to eliminate a threat to her policewoman partner.
Minute hand
A magical realism story about a man finding redemption through fixing a clock.
Last Supper
In “Last Supper,” a death row inmate has an unconventional last meal the night before his unjust execution.
Restrained
A student working for the summer at an institution for elderly, psychiatric patients is shocked to discover the lack of real care and caring.
California “Area 13”
A wrong turn thrusts a man into reconciling California’s past, present, and future while examining his own.
One of a Kind
Ricky Gordon, a high school basketball coach in a small town, upon his father’s death, must come to terms with the parent he never respected.
It’s over and done
A cancer patient on a rough journey through the treatment process and all those who traveled with him.
return to solitude
For those who know…
Comfort
A snapshot of mental illness.
A Walking Detention
The unnerving happenings to any neurodivergent student in school.
Pale Almond Blossoms
Inspiration drawn from the stuff of life.
On Her Last Night
A deathbed elegy.
A question
A poem about dogs, about the idea of dogs.
the devil’s fingers
a murderer
doesn’t realize
The Regions of America
There was once an admired branch of the US Government, epitomized by the title Supreme Court, but that doesn’t exist any longer.
Death of an Idea
This poem urges us all to pursue our thoughts, our ideas, to their ultimate conclusion no matter how frivolous they may seem.
A Rhetorical Question
A complicated response to a rhetorical question.
Kept at Bay in the Bay
One step out, not sidestep, from West Africa,
One firm stride, with full slide, into America.
malaise
what is this strange feeling in me,
that gnaws on my marrow.
Anchors and Angels
How the wonders of nature and life can sometimes be lost in translation or even during the attempt to describe them at all.
Torture by Telephone
A tongue-in-cheek description of an annoying phone call
it takes awhile…
to forget childhood traumas or hideous
events like world trade center falling