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- Autumn Grazing 3.1
- Trick or Treat
- Thanksgiving embers
- Koi dance
- Bird of Paradise
- Agricultural forms
- Visual Interlude
- Back Alley Bins
- Night Heron 1.11
- Grasshopper
- Sunflowers
- SAILING
- Sunflower 8s
- Swimming Lesson
- Heron
- Diving
- Graffiti Alley
- Summer Breezin'
- Sunflower 7.4a
- Mabel's Pizza
- Grand Vista 3.0
- Beachcomber 2.5
- Brown Door
- Lock Footbridge
- Night Flower 3.7
- Unfurling in green
- Fungi on wood
- Abandonned Truck Cab : Natures Abstracts
- Social Distancing
- South western patinas
- Covid 19 coffee break
- Murs en blanc
- abandonned tires and passages
- O'Hara Mill Homestead
- Red barn paddock
- Dundas Brewhouse
- Balzac's
- Passageways
- Melodies in blue
- Snowfall 022020
- Mallard 4.9
- Brtish car show -Lotus
- Windowdressing
- London market grill
- Winter Landscapes
- Curiosity
- Winter refuge
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2019
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- Flutterby
- Sunday morning coffee
- in the doorway
- at the edge
- Chinese Herbs
- Double Entendre
- First snows
- Gage Park Diner
- Remebrance day 2019
- Apple Harvest
- Descente a la plage
- Farmers Market in orange
- The superior aesthetics of loitering
- Salmon run 2019
- Morgan 44 -8.2
- Summers End
- Migration
- ART vs TECH as GAN
- Order on line
- Venetian Meats
- Summer Harvesting
- Honda Indy Toronto 2019
- Morning Irises
- Hillside in sunlight
- Feathers in grey
- SPIRO
- Aviary 346
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2018
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- Sand Graffiti
- October Evening Harvest
- Grand River
- The game
- The fortement
- July celebrations
- Buoyancy in blues
- The decision
- Magical Blue Skies in red
- Vatican Fuschia
- RBG : In the river valley
- Bullrushes
- Spur Line
- Abstract 4
- Rural Landscape
- Sunflower #12
- Magical Blues
- Red Balloon
- Lines
- Water: B & W
- Horizon Slip
- Gravity Vortex
- Gears
- Retail narrative forms
- Thompsonian snowbirds
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2017
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- Digital Dysfunction
- Autumn Boreal Forest
- Suspended bridge
- Autumn PeeGate
- Food colour systems
- Waupoos harvest, fond fonce
- Waupoos harvest, ground in white
- Stringed instrument origins
- Caterpillar yoga
- South Garden Tinkerbells
- Side yard garden shed
- If light dissipates
- Confessional
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- Winter Flight
- Time Drift 17
- Paleo Tattos
- Signal and Noise
- Colour Juxtapositoins
- RBG: Studies of grounds in green and blue.
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2016
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- Winter Light
- Silent Vigil
- Memory as Patina
- The Apiarists
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- Bohemian Waxwing
- Predawn Garden
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- Berger
- Migratory feeding
- Tulip 2016
- Bird furniture
- The bee keepers
- The Beekeepers 168
- Urban Waterfront Series
- Winter Perch
- Marsh Spring
- Found in Translations
- Disentangling the tangled garden
- Education lights a fire
- Jeremiah
- Teal Pond
- Julian Barnes
- Archimedes dreaming
- Bovine
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2015
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- Breakaway
- Rabble of ravens 1
- Vortex of difference
- Reading the trail
- The bench #2
- The journey begins
- On frozen pond : (post season)
- Colorflage strategies
- Form by any other color
- Redux A
- Overhead Perch
- Fuschia
- Study in white 2
- Rex head
- Mechanosaurus
- Sideyard skull
- Art begets
- Backyard Daffodil Still Life
- Propensity of meaning
- Pre "I-Drive" Era
- Annie's Sister - redux 1
- Listening to images.
- Figure Skate
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2014
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- Pre GoogleDriver -Release History
- IBM portrait studies #5
- this notion
- Emerald Grotto
- Ancient Byways
- Autumn Cabbage
- Off Stockdale Road, ...
- At the field edge
- Under the rose petals
- Composition in Fasteners
- Periods of transition
- Black Sunglasses
- Lake Ontario - March
- Lead positioning
- Hope
- Mobiusesque push
- Immediacy & nostalgia
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- Triple salchow
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2013
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- This kiss
- juxtaposition in grey and white
- Feathers and woolen fields
- Red Figure
- Shaman
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- The pilot school
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- Blue collar
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- SIlent mooring
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- Golden ground
- County cornfield in spring
- Horizon-scapes
- Painting only begins with vision
- The advent of jewelry
- The raku apprentice
- Shadow cinema
- Spring Horizons
- Patina & Portaiture
- Winters last waltz?
- Return Migration
- Christmas Snowfall
- Release
- Pursuit and reading meaning.
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2012
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- Considerations on augmented paintings
- West of Amherst Island
- December Cadmium Orange
- Young turkey
- Parks Studio Road Crossing
- Beside the orchard
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- Art shrink wrapped
- Poppy 11.11
- The nephews funeral 3
- Attending to what is
- Upon a bed of gravel
- Among the hydro lines
- Interest in the interested
- Homo Collectus
- Brightons Mute Swans
- Triangulation & pointing
- Commonalities & distinctions
- The paintings never finished
- Derivatives and reflections
- The stone Herald
- Eyeshadow in gold
- The boat (Belize)
- Saint Patricks
- Side studio door
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Ground - Figure
Our understanding of things change. Back in the 12th century the day was divided into two parts, day and night. Each part was divided into 12 hours each. Those hours are called seasonal hours, as while the days got shorter, so too did the daylight hours, even though there remained 12. Technology changed how we understand hours. With a sundial, the changing length of an hour was still comprehensible, now with mechanical and nuclear time keeping, it seems strange the idea that one hour wouldn't equal the same duration as another. So is it time to re-examine our understanding of the figure and ground? McLuhan & McLuhan explain the figure as that which we give our attention to of the ground, and in the focus we separate from the background. We objectify and come to terms with it, in accord with its own features and intrinsic values. Much like the conscious to the unconscious. The benefit being it allows one to move from the experience of being the ground, to being able to analyze something. Geometry from the flux. The digital shift has moved us back into the immediate, into the flux of ground and so we tend nowadays, to see things as interrelated, not isolated facts - objectified. From physics to philosophy, we have moved back to an "oriental" understanding of the world versus the prior "occidental" view of the world. The thing is, our split brain is already hardwired to understand both these ways of being. Both the ground and the figure. What has shifted is the predominance of the figure in our society. So what is there a way to preserve both? As they both , like our double vision systems, give us an advantage under different circumstances. So can art place value on both the ground and the figure, rather then one or the other? |
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