Chapter 2

I stepped on to the streetcar making my split second judgment of the driver, "Can I get away with underpaying? Is the driver paying attention? What gender? What race? Age?" All this and more flashed in my mind before I decided to drop dollar number two back into my pocket or not. My success rate was fairly high, I had only been caught once. This time however I paid in full. The middle aged, white, male driver had a stern concentrated look on his bald headed face that suggested to me he had caught a few chancers in his time and was determined to count every fare since. He sussed me and I sussed him, we were both happy.

Chapter One

I stood on the corner of Queen and Coxwell, once again waiting for that ever so distinguishable sound that confirmed warmth was on it's way. The temperature was getting to the point where it was becoming a physical and mental effort to take my hand out of my pocket in order to count the appropriate two dollars seventy-five.

Three young white people stood in a huddle to my left. There was some sort of gyrating movement going on so I turned and stared, I'm not one for subtlety. There was two male and one female. They were, unless my eyes were deciding to lie to me, each listening to separate head-phones, each mouthing the words to separate (presumably rap) songs, and each moving in what can only be described as a rhythmically, rather unnatural, spasm. What made this spectacle even more uncomfortable was that they would every so often look up at each other, as if searching for some kind of conformation or acceptance.

As much as this fascinated me, I was just as disturbed. Luckily warmth arrived.

Silver Bells

Mary Mary quite contrary,
how does your garden grow?
with silver bells and cockleshells,
and pretty maids all in a row.

Tea Stories

This is a box design for a line of teas, the project brief was handed out along with 3 short stories from different parts of the world and we were asked to represent one of them throughout the box design. This one was called The Tiger Finds a Teacher.

Pilot Magazine

Illustrations for a short story for Pilot Magazine
Possibly getting published.

Spencer Finch

Sunset (South Texas, 6/21/03) is one of many installations Finch has produced to relocate specific experiences of natural light. After taking exact light measurements at the sites of ancient Troy and Emily Dickinson's backyard, he used fluorescent tubes and color filters to re-create the luminescence that inspired classics of literature. His systematic but playful light installations communicate a yearning to measure the intangible alongside a self-deprecating awareness of human limitations.

White (Niagara Falls obscured by mist, April 17th, 2006 5:30pm) | 2006, 20'x8', lightbox and filters. The light at a moment when the falls was obscured by its own mist.

Abecedary (Nabokov's Theory of a Colored Alphabet applied to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) | 2004, 9' x 30', ink and watercolor on paper. Uses Nabokov's system of a colored alphabet to transliterate 9,251 characters from Heisenberg's text.

Study for a Groovy Unnameable Color (Yellowish-Orange) | 1997, 22" x 30", watercolor on paper.

Sarah Cullin

This is a 'Map' produced by a Toronto based artist, Sarah Cullin. She creates these maps by walking around carrying a box which inside contains a pen hanging from the top acting as a type of pendulum, as she travels the pen creates a visual representation of her journey on the paper below it.

More Than Rain

The final book.

Exploring watercolour

Bumpy Ride

Drawing the movements of my journeys.

More Than Rain

This started as a small sketchbook project to illustrate a Tom Waits song but developed into something slightly more, I think I may make a small book out of these.

Jazz Trance

Queen Street, East - West

Screenprinting project based on the variable of editions. For me this is a journey. The first of the editions is at the bottom and works up, for some reason it wouldnt upload 2 of them so there is supposed to be 10.

Disaster Strikes

After all that I hate the final piece, ah la vie!

Kristoffer Myskja - Go to his web site for videos of his work

Structures for Behaviour II

Construction begins

Earth Day has landed

Finally finished this poster, happy with the colour scheme but the blue could have been slightly more subdued, it was good fun to make though.

Structures For Behavior

My plans for the construction of an invisible man

A little play time

They look better if you click on them.