If Isaac Newton could remove colour from human experience of the world and silence it as a subject of scientific investigation simply by reducing it to a pattern of mathematics, and … […]
A World of Colour
More Beautiful Water
Yesterday, the world froze mid-breath. Here it is, so you can breath some more of it… … because when I saw it turn into the sun … …I stopped breathing … … […]
The Beauty of Water
First … wonder, then … more wonder.
Last night it snowed. This morning it melted and all that water went away. Well, not entirely. Mullein, 1 pm Last night’s snow has turned to sleet, caught by the hairs on […]
Environmentally Friendly Rototiller
Yes, no more do you have to zip on down to the gas pump to fuel up your tiller with refined tar sand goo. No more do you have to sit in […]
Dandelions, Awake!
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to the neighbourhood quail doing their tra la la back in the sweet time of flowers and weeds. At night, this stretch belongs to the […]
Aboriginal Ways of Science
There is a way of organizing thought that uses human observers to rigorously observe the things of the world, deduces from them patterns of behaviour and organization and draws from those further […]
The Incubator Part 2
On Friday, I introduced the Cube, an experimental art space in Campbell River, as a model for a new type of art mentorship. If you missed it, here’s the discussion. For almost […]
The Incubator
For four years I knocked around in the Vancouver Island city of Campbell River, an old pulp mill and fishing town that has met hard times. It contains, however, two remarkable artists. […]
Rebuilding the University
What do you do when the only university in your country is dependent upon the intellectual ideas of the management class of a different country and trains your country’s young people in […]
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