These postcards are made from printed photos of my original art pieces, glued to heavy-gauge watercolour paper and then mailed off to elsewhere. Photographed before depositing into postbox. This is all.
Post’d: handmade art postcards, various
Glints on stainless trim… / Towns and Trains
Beds are cantilevered
Crisped sheets whisked
Into place at our whim
The attendant nods
I burn a small lamp
Glints on the stainless trim
A gift from my brother
The Bangkok diplomat
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018
Kept wondering, wandering…
Kept wondering, wandering
taking notes
from time to time
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Exhibit: Douglas Coupland mixed-media at VAG, vol. 7 (paintings, remix’d / G7)
Evidence from mixed-media master Douglas Coupland’s exhibit at Vancouver Art Gallery – the assortment of items i captured from the wide-array of mediums he works with/in, are arranged into 7 volumes for convenience. This is volume 7, Painting, remix’d/G7 (my title, not his). Note: some of these paintings were “technically only sorta” part the Coupland exhibit as i recall. I don’t know really.
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Scrapbook: ephemera assembled in leather bound with delicious paper…
Did I mention I love making scrapbooks? Scissors and glue and (miscellaneous & travel-related mostly) ephemera assembled into handmade journals with delicious paper to create a story of sorts. I have stacks of these documented in this archive for my reference and your amusement.
Post’d: envelope backs – basic manila with inky stamps
To remind and inspire myself, i often photograph envelopes before they embark on their journey. The fronts contain folks’ personal address (which i shoot to keep a record i never actually look back upon to recall who i’ve mailed) so i shan’t share that bit, but i will gallery up the backs – really for no purpose, just for amusement and artsy funtimes.
This batch are under-stated (made in Penang, Malaysia to transport watercolour pictograms) hearty manila card-sized and adorned with new-that-day inky stamps proclaiming various instructions or attributes, along with my distinctive seal of approval.
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Suitcase of cigarettes… / Towns and Trains
Saffron robes
And a suitcase full
Of cigarettes
Eating past dark
We trade a blue-spotted orange
For bag of salted cashews
In a train compartment
Bound for a jaunty frontier
The garland of marigolds for him
A dried purple bloom
Intertwined within
my battered straw hat
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018
Daydreaming all afternoon…
Daydreaming all afternoon
til darkness
changes the dream
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Exhibit: Douglas Coupland mixed-media at VAG, vol. 6 (substrates)
Evidence from mixed-media master Douglas Coupland’s exhibit at Vancouver Art Gallery – the assortment of items i captured from the wide-array of mediums he works with/in, are arranged into 7 volumes for convenience. This is volume 6, Substrates (my title, not his).
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Scrapjournal: Sri Lanka, blue / ephemera (2017-18)
Another scrapjournal for the archive, this one containing the usual assortment of paper-y bit collected in Sri Lanka where i received Ayruvedic panchakarma treatment and rambled around a wee bit staying at faded-glory “grand” hotels, rustic tea shops rife with horse race punters, and jungles of monkeys. Left under strained confusing circumstances but that’s neither here nor there.
Nevertheless, a few sample pages to provide evidence of above annotations for your amusement.
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