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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
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- SPIRO
- Aviary 346
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2018
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- Sand Graffiti
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- Grand River
- The game
- The fortement
- July celebrations
- Buoyancy in blues
- The decision
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- 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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- Time Drift 17
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- RBG: Studies of grounds in green and blue.
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- Tulip 2016
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- The Beekeepers 168
- Urban Waterfront Series
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- Found in Translations
- Disentangling the tangled garden
- Education lights a fire
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- Julian Barnes
- Archimedes dreaming
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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
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- Sideyard skull
- Art begets
- Backyard Daffodil Still Life
- Propensity of meaning
- Pre "I-Drive" Era
- Annie's Sister - redux 1
- Listening to images.
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2014
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- Pre GoogleDriver -Release History
- IBM portrait studies #5
- this notion
- Emerald Grotto
- Ancient Byways
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- 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
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- Triple salchow
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2013
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- Dreams
- This kiss
- juxtaposition in grey and white
- Feathers and woolen fields
- Red Figure
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- The pilot school
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- Blue collar
- The shaman's light
- SIlent mooring
- Catnap
- Purple Jacket
- 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
- Heirlooms and contemporary
- 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
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- Saint Patricks
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It is said that butterflies come into the world, one generation at a time. Each solar cycle the whole species learns anew and discovers its' world without the guiding help of tradition nor heritage. Somewhere in their genes is all they need to live in the world. Chimps have demonstrated the capacity to learn and apprehend. They do discover and invent unique responses to their pressing questions of the world. It's surmised that although we and chimps share a significant number of genes, that humanity differentiates itself from the chimps in being able to point. That we are able to accumulate and transmit our understanding and insights across generations because we are able to imagine triangulation. That we can teach to others as we can point, |
to something and the relationships between the pointer, the pointed and the observer are grasped as a shared triangulation. We can literally point something out as the viewer has the innate capacity to realize the as of yet unrecognized relationship it has to that which is pointed to. I point to something and you understand it is the subject of our exchange. Probably this is possible only through a displaced mimicry - being able to imagine ourselves in the others position. Regardless, that we can point to something and also understand the significance of another's pointing gesture, allows humanity to accumulate shared knowledge and develop culture. |
Painting too operates upon this triangulation of understanding. Its' beauty is different from natures in that the beauty being shared with us via another is pointed to across time. Its been deliberately set there for us a stranger to consider. Without being able to triangulate ourselves in order to grasp the insight being presented, we'd never be able to contemplate arts significance. The artist is in many ways simply pointing, saying, “Look, do you see what I see?” Pointing gestures take many forms, sometimes the gestures are left as traces and marks upon the medium being used. And although art may have significant insights to teach us, more often, it is as simple as the privileging of the wonder of the world around us. |
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