In contemporary culture, creativity (a rather new term) is a word used to describe a vast array of impulses. The New World Encyclopedia sums it up like this: Creativity is a process involving […]
A Thought on Creativity
Kjarval and the Children of Iceland
Today I’d like to walk with you through the social ecology of Iceland, by way of the popular artist Kjarval. I think it will go a long way towards exploring what Okanagan […]
The Invention of Nature
Nature didn’t always exist. Unlike most manufactured products, though, it wasn’t stamped out of a plastic mould in a factory in China, or even poured into a mould in an old factory […]
Painting with Ice
Yesterday I talked about a language of ice. I’m still following that idea, of writing from the local materials of a place and going through the doorways opened by that kind of […]
Okanagan Okanogan 