XLife Art is Freedom
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Life’s too short for small labels. XL Life - Home of my personal 'LISTEN Label Fashion Wear, worn inside the galleries T-shirts and Sports Jersey Cover-Ups. Outside Summer Caps and Winter Toques of Alberta.
2026-05-16, Painter's Notes: Pope Leo told young visitors to the Vatican this week, that it often brings him sadness, since many never set foot in church again—disappearing from their parishes and from the life of faith.
Left Stage -Exit Right
2026-05-13, Paint day under a bright sky, soaking in vitamin D. Gratitude to every contributor — including the government MLA who helped kick off this 2019 painting again, The Legislature Has No Dome, Unity, a name shaped in part by an Alberta Sheriff.
Flip the canvas, and you meet its counterpart: The Grande Stage Democracy. Along the baseline and beside the cross, new flowers bloom — painted by dozens of hands, from kids to elders. They mark renewal, just like the rose bushes rising today from the top of the Legislature, reclaiming the space where the dome once stood. Back in 2022, HBO’s The Last of Us turned the Legislature into a film set and blew the dome apart for season one. I sketched and gave my drawings to the crew, and later spoke with CBC about my actions.
