Black & White

Oil on canvas.

40x40"

The desiccated landscape of what looks like a world at its end. But to be reborn one needs to die first.

Linocut print (framed).

25x31"

Limited edition 1 of 1.

Nature was once the only power in human imagination capable of lifting the cultural weight of our existential questions. Hoisted onto trees, oceans, and animals were questions about who we are, why we’re here, and what our place in the universe really is. To examine our shift away from this thinking, I took the Norse World Tree, Yggdrasil, a mythic structure that held people’s entire cosmological framework, and laid it bare. Through reduction linocut I aimed to demonstrate that Western civilization has forgotten how to cultivate cultural imagination and creation, and that we are poorer for it. We have minimized the tree, old and giant, into a mere source of wood.

Acrylic and image transfer on wood.

30x40x1.50"

I love to observe city life — all the cars and people rushing by — I always like to imagine where all those people are going and what their lives are like. I do the same thing with my pieces, I like to make up stories about the depicted urban scenes which are usually reflected in the titles as well.

This lady is probably on her break, or maybe she's done for the day or it might be Monday morning, who knows! But I do think she's walking there deep in thought, do you know what she's thinking about?

In the beginning I painted Montréal for familiarize myself with my new home town, then I moved to Japan and they became wonderful reminders of a home I had left behind. Now that I am back in Canada and live about 45 minutes north of the city, this piece is a reminder to venture out there every once in a while to explore all the urban beauty this city has to offer.