Doug Brinkman

2017, She smiles after all that...

Art is made for people to react. Having a position means what you are doing is needed and it is creating change. In the long term, a lot of people are going to appreciate it. - Venezuelan Woman,

Alberta Legislature Art Show & Tell, 2017.

When I first looked at it, it reminded me of Notre Dame Cathedral burning. It also reminds me also of some of Van Gogh’s paintings. If we are burning now, like Notre Dame, we will rise better and stronger." - Marg McCuaig-Boyd, 2020

2021, Violet King Henry plaza #NoNewNormal

2019, Climate Strike, environment, social & political climate extremes

2020, Wear red as we go marching, Rome is burning

2020-2021, George W. Bush & Jason Kenney

2021, Worship

2021, Hineni 'I am here'

1981, Ken Ku Kuo once told me that in China, people know life as a river. Going down a river you never know what lies around the next bend. Sometimes the water is like rapids, very bad time and hard at living. Sometimes it's calm, very happy to be alive, but always

changing. Sometimes good times, sometimes bad times,

but always changing. Co-worker, friend

Ken from Hanoi, Vietnam.

2019, Sideways, More Circles than Squares art project

2021, Life is a river

2017, 2019, Trouble maker, the coming storm

2021, The laughing planet on the backside of George W. Bush & Jason Kenney

2020-2021, Trees do talk

RESET (the box)

2021, Mary Simon and the orange flower, Truth & Reconciliation

The bear never forgets, back pg.

2016, I am a man

2016 - 2021 City & Province bans my art

"Freedom is important, especially today"-B.K.

"True North Strong and FREE, a line straight from our anthem"- E.K., "Escape is freedom from judgmental civilians who should mind their own business - and help those /encourage them who try to get a happy lifestyle..." -A.C.R.L.W.-B, "Freedom is Honesty, Being Honest is Love"-C, "Free The Art"-W.C., "Freedom is our right. In any form express it with art. If art was a crime Leonardo would have been doing the time"-E.B., "Sovereignty is Freedom"- Dene Warrior, "Edmonton Ward 7 candidate"-S.P., "Lets make Edmonton the City of Art and Imagination"-D, Art is Expression, Freedom is Art"-V, "Keep Fighting to Speak your Piece"-N.R., "Freedom is my right as a human being..." - C.A., "Freedom, Art and Honesty"-M.M., "If freedom is the child, then understanding is the mother and determination is the father"- R.K.A., "Art is a way to express ourselves as an artist, and its not something that others can simply take it away from us"- Kevan Lyons “Poet of Churchill Square”. "Art is Freedom"- Love A.L., "自由" S.L., "Fight the power, art is freedom" - K.C., "Art is freedom"- A.A., "Freedom, art and honesty"- M.M., "Freedom is a Right" - M.O.S., "Freedom for All Canadians"- G.W. Edmonton Ward 10 candidate, "The choice is ours", "To be who we want to be"-J.U., "Freedom seems almost unachievable", "Live your life how you want to, with love in your heart"-J, "We stand together"-V, Art is freedom picket, sign

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