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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.

Photoshop Poster

Hidden Towers Poster...
just a student project and wasn't actually applied.

My first Photoshop pastiche, the influences were The Dust Bowl, Grapes of Wrath, type writer font and a general ominous feel....

Army Dreamers

This is everything a person could ever desire from a song, elegant, danceable, intelligent and a great story. I'm in love....again....

Paintings from New Mexico

feminist horror revisited

I totally think it is wrong to post this but it just so perfectly illustrates a point
I am F......G will go nameless


G-Hello
how are you?


F-hey...great..what's going on?


G-not too much just chillin drinkin beer
what's new with you?


F-how's baby?and wifey?


G-Just got wifey new titties and the kid turns 2 tommorow


F-what the fuck does that mean


G-We had a big shaker for him yesterday


F-new titties?


G-boob job


F-gross...that's why I don't live there and have no regrets about leaving


G-why boobs?


F-I don't know anyone else who would refer to his wife's breasts as titties.....she's breast feeding your child
no your mentality


G-ha hahah hahah a ha no she isn't
whatever
later


F-its not funny....

G-you are not funny


F-that was a bit harsh I apologize


G-thank you


F-I just find that kind of language really frustrating...maybe you can understand that


G-I didn't mean to offend

F-aight...I'm going to sleep take care