big painting

guess who stopped by

to remind me of Tahiti

human extinction

human extinction
and cats trained
in the service
of the robots
as managers of
the rats..
who do most of the work.
There are also some
trained apes in manufacture and
dolphins in transportation.
The robots were
programmed
to clean up.

learning

how can we succeed
without moving simultaneously
in all directions

Beckett c o n f l u e n c e

While, Waiting for...

if, in the search for 

the  necessary shift,

 a single focus would help,

perhaps in the word  " c o n f l u e n c e "

   because waiting for a

simultaneous global coincidence

will leave us 

waiting   

painting cross-dissolves

painting the cross-dissolves
between dimensions
inhabits the realm
between intuition and
imagination
much as surrealist painting
inhabits the
connection between
the un / and consciousness

mother nature's day

the sound of wind as i awoke

maple flowers and the occasional leaf

drifting into the east

how lucky we were 

to have good weather last week

and the wind and snow today

 

To disregard the biosphere that we inhabit 

sounds, anything but conservative;

to dismantle science

and to curtail democracy

sounds like a step backward 

into a totalitarian fundamentalist

state.

If  Harper remains invested in winning at all costs 

and is at the same time, 

invested in the 

end times

perhaps the conservatives need a new leader-

someone who can imagine a near future

without a global implosion. 

movement in still images

There is much that we can learn with the assistance of photography
but what about instances in which our experience and understanding
are not particularly well represented by photography.

Yes, the long exposure or panning can help
but the iconic Ansel Adams landscapes with
smooth water come to mind as a mechanical
misrepresentation of a natural experience.

Yes, there are attempts to represent the world differently using
still and motion pictures- current research into compound cameras
replicating an insect's view of the world and
i remember a 360º projection at the canadian pavilion
when i was 10 but
if we could combine these images in our imagination,
what could we learn about looking differently.

Although the painting depicted in the detail above
is not a conscious representation of nature,
now that i look at it, it reminds me
how problematic a white tent pole
can be when it's centre stage.

spring lichen green

it seemed like a complimentary colour to

the collection of colour pigments

that themselves had been a reaction to

a painting predominated with late summer green

painting outside

just as it seems ridiculous
to try to paint ones house
from the inside
why do i have to point out that
the studio is the place to paint
at night
or when it's raining


i was oiling the south and east sides of the house
in preparation to finish with the moss-grey-green
stain that i'd mixed up a few years back.
while stirring and straining i brought a
current painting out into the afternoon sun.
happily surprised that the black flies
had taken the day off
i found the painting was looking for
just such a hue

may fourth

Kenny Baldwin 4th of May Back-Yard Memorial


I took the canoe out
on a windy day
but  i couldn't
get across the first lake.
coming back
i could steer
with the paddle

in the air

one week into May

and in that week
we have shifted
from residual snow
to a green explosion
the like of which is
seldom seen

the little brown wrens
arrived
vocally agressive
demanding that i
get their nesting boxes
cleaned out- now

and the fly catchers
who yell fee-bee fee-bee
at each other
keep me guessing about
the leftover nesting material
in their favourite spots

i try to dissuade them from
nesting in the wood shed
because something-
i suspect racoons-
"so cute when they're young"
usually eats their first brood

and of course,
there are the black flies.
last year's erratic weather
with a spring heat-wave
followed by frosts
took down the apple blossoms.
we missed the apples
but nobody mentioned missing the
black flies.

who will speak for the black flies?
the phoebes will