The government is the people’s voice. Sometimes it appears that the government is hiding. Sometimes, one is surprised just where it’s got to. Here is the art that Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo put […]
Walking in the Sun
In the post-marxist cultural world of contemporary art (don’t fool yourself, it exists outside of North Korea), the sun on the saskatoon bush below is not considered art, nor is the moment […]
Happy New Year!
The folks down the road have been making magic to see the New Year in with true artfulness! Obviously, with a send-off like that, it’s going to be a great year. Blessings to […]
New Snow: When Zero Gets Real
I’ve been talking about zeroes lately, and suggested that a mathematics without zero would be a mathematics of unity. It wouldn’t lead to contemporary technical society or economics, or even the computer […]
The Art of Stopping
Everything in this image stopped. Still Life, Turtle Mountain Including the image. Yet, take a look at the walnut shell. Every time I look at it, I see it stop just now. […]
Writing for the Future: An Ecology of the English Language
I wrote this for my writing blog, Witual, today, and thought that while I compile a post about new vegetables for the Okanagan, you might like to have a look about how […]
Spirit of the Land
I had a moving experience in Iceland today. I can’t wait to work through this form of practice back home in the Okanagan. It strikes me that here, at last, is a […]
Light Does Not Move in Straight Lines
Two hundred years ago, the poet and scientist Goethe observed that if light is measured with Newton’s prisms and measurement devices what will be found will match the method of measurement. After […]
The Line Comes Before the Word
Today, simplicity: Vernon Creek, 1/125 of a Second Letting the Earth speak for herself. Imagine if you slowed the mind down yet more!
Is Anyone Home?
There’s a new language in town. It’s a bit like listening in a mirror. To help you hear it, here’s an older language… Bird Footprints Among the Dinosaurs Royal Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, […]
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