2017, Jodie smiles after all that...
Doug's Birds of a Feather, 13th, Social Art Project
Painted beside Herman Poulin’s Service Through Christ beginning April 15, 2019 — the day Notre‑Dame de Paris burned — this acrylic work (completed in 2021) carries the imprint of moments. The Alberta Legislature appears without its dome, a gesture toward unity and shared responsibility. It became a communal painting painted by many, including a Catholic woman approached, prayed for Canada’s leaders to be blessed, and then added flowers. Her words remain part of the piece: “When we love ourselves, it is incumbent upon us to love everyone around us and to do good. I pray for Canada, I pray for peace, I pray for unity, and I pray for leaders with compassion with the drive to bring unity today and forever.” Her prayer, her flowers, and the shared act of painting together transformed the artwork into a testament to service, and the idea that unity can sometimes be accomplished with art.
Doug Brinkman's Rare White Bird Gallery
In Memory of Virgil Abloh and Dennis Edney.
Birds of a Feather Inspired in part by
Jackie, Shadow, Gizmo, Sunny
Sandy and Luna.
Left Stage, Exit
Right!
Pop pop Dazzled by Eveyday
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Alberta Wildfires, Floods, and Freedoms.
...and my stuborn lifelong practice of Free Press
109 St. Bridge O’er Smokey Skies, Muddy Waters The High Level Bridge — built 1910–1913, once carrying streetcars, trains, cars, and the daily north–south pulse of Edmonton — stands now in a long pause, its future weighed by engineers and echoed in recent news stories. This YouTube pairs June 2014 with July 2026, two summers spliced across twelve years of change. Clear skies meet wildfire haze; steady brown river meets heavier muddy churn. The bridge does not move, yet everything around it shifts. A Pop pop Dazzled by Everyday, Presentation, cut‑up, the piece listens to a century‑old structure waiting its fate — suspended o’er the city’s past, o’er its uncertain future, o’er troubled waters and times.
