Winnipeg, Canada

We live in stories… is Ev’s latest piece. It incorporates impressions of wood letterpress type from my collection. As of yesterday this sculptural piece is on exhibit at the Pulse Gallery (The Forks, Winnipeg). This hand-built kiln-fired clay figure is partially glazed, along with oxide stains and cold finishes, on a stained wooden base (old-growth fir).

Winnipeg, Canada

Currently on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Shop, Question Everything and Just watch me… are two sculptures of Ev’s that are part of the WAVE at the WAG exhibit, a group show featuring the work of over 20 Interlake Wave Studio Tour artists.

WAVE at the WAG is on until Sunday, 12 April — drop by the WAG if you have the chance.

Many more quotables here…

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me.

—Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation (1899-1981)

Thanks to Brenda Morrison in Eagle River, Ontario, for this quotable…

Montréal, Quebec

After a 5-year hiatus, Netdiver has rebooted its tradition of revisiting the past year of design news to choose projects that stand out “for their originality, quality, and inspirational value.”

Shown above is a tiny sampling — see much more at BOTY 14.

Thanks, Carole Guevin.

Best wishes to friends, kin, and comrades worldwide… Happy New Year!

Congratulations to dear friend Suchot Sunday, first-place winner of the 2014 poetry writing contest sponsored by the Winnipeg Free Press and the Writers’ Collective of Manitoba.

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Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba… while digging up carrots yesterday.