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Strange Faces on the Commercial Drive

 

These photos are from the photo shoot that Dasha Lushnikova and I did on Commercial Drive for Mainly Main Magazine..They turned out beautiful and look even better in print....

This mask series is an effort to work through and revisit the archetypes and social structures I encountered as a child growing up in the boonies of British Columbia.  The masks develop their own unique characters, each one serving as an individual conduit which channels the wearer into the small-town mythology.  And, most importantly, they transport the unmasked as well.  Everydayness is caught off guard.  The boredom, alienation and complacency are shaken back to life with strangeness.  Thank you for all the smiles on Commercial Drive!


Thanks to Sonia Zagwyn and Clinton Debogorski for their help!

Juvenile Hall and Blondewich Poster

They said retro 50s housewife type imagery, then jello mold imagery was stuck in my head. So lush shiny and congealed. While looking at imagery online I kept noticing the hands of these pulp fiction murder-essses and wanted more....that was about it the fonts are retro hand painted and scanned. Perhaps it is a bit busy...as usual but I am slowly weaning myself from the chaos that is my nature.