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I've been chipping away at various projects but not showing or saying too much about them too soon because the projects are bigger than myself alone.

I enjoyed going back out to the Lasserre building at UBC this week on two occasions.  First, to present a talk for Annabel Vaughn's 'node' studio - she kindly asked me show the students a few of the projects I have done over the past few years which have been situated in the public realm.  I showed: 'turf skirts,' 'fact/fiction worlds series,' 'ludo in soho,' 'egg + dart,' 'concrete pillow bench,' 'verb tests,' 'shelf project,' 'seed balls hung from viaduct,' 'floor project,' 'moving space diorama,' and then finished with some background info on one of the projects I am currently developing.

My second trip out to Lasserre this week was to take part in a studio crit for the first years - they did localized string installations based on some gathered drawing data about a specific part of an iconic building.  There's a buzz in the air these days about string installations!  Or maybe I am all of a sudden more aware of this type of activity based on our own string installation earlier this summer...

David and I are settling in to our new studio.  Below is a photo of the first thing I made there (after taking down our string installation and moving all our stuff in).

david's legs

found infrastructure

stretch sketch

Sometimes i like having to wait somewhere because it gives me free sketch time.

film curtain progress

bulgarian fishing knot

The other day when I was speaking with a friend we briefly got on the topic of rope and knots. Now I'm wondering which I am more drawn to, the rope or the knots. But I guess it's kind of both the same.

two images from the vault

One is a sketch:

Made while at a museum. The animal is called a 'Lesser Malay Chevrotain'.

And the other one is an oil painting I made for my Aunt Carol.

timetimetimetimetime

ok maybe this

a few spring sketches

drawn with cold hands!

Burrard Bridge north side

Main Street Viaduct north side

Main Street Viaduct south side

Cambie Bridge west side

been away...

here are a few of my sketches from recent travels:

Price's viaduct, Central Otago NZ

Poolburn viaduct, Central Otago NZ

Mackenzie Lake, Fjordland NZ

Hana Bay, Maui

Hamoa Beach, Maui

oh yeah future trees

david stretching and pit of delicious mango

old mykleby farmhouse

Here are two drawings and a photo from our time in Norway, July 2009.

When days were very long.

The house is kept in perfect condition both inside and out. It was built about 150 years ago. It's amazing. Seems like they had originally used birch bark (and birch tar) for the underlayer on the roof.

rope volume stretch sketch

sewing a space

a drawing from last summer

Here is a section drawing of the wood-fired sauna at my friend's parents' summer cottage near Vuorela, in Finland. It is a magical place.

pennies volume idea

This is an idea for a volume of space under the N side of Burrard Bridge to be lined with pennies, one every square inch. The space would become a shimmering look-out over the mouth of False Creek.

floor project beginnings

work in progress - deciding on a pattern

mini book layout