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Birds of a Feather Art Project
Faith, Democracy and Nature
Queen Victoria’s birthday is May 24, 1819. That date became the basis for Victoria Day in Canada, which was originally declared a holiday in 1845 and is still celebrated on the Monday preceding May 25. Cover Art: Outdoor Victoria Day Quick-Draw.
🎨 Pop Pop Dazzled by Every Day and Abstracts of Light and Shadows presents a découpé visual narrative cut-up on YouTube(s). A look into the past to glimpse the future unknown. I’ve interlaced recent and archived citizen-free news stories with layered sounds and visuals. This process births a new art form, crafting fresh narratives through the cut-up technique.
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.
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Art is Freedom
Left Stage, Exit Right, Free from ARTifICE
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.
Eye on Red Dress, Hike—under six k, in the chilled air. Titled Happy Rest: a female-shaped Italian red coffee pot simmering on the front, flanked by pizza slices and the City of Edmonton emblem, all garnished with words along the edways by a local word‑chef known as the Ukrainian Sausage. Flip it over, and the backside serves as a memory of an Indigenous Red Dress, and asparagus exploding out of a recycling can like a vegetable firework. Bon appétit!
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