2017, Jodie smiles after all that...2026
Citizen 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.
Pop pop Dazzled by Eveyday
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Smokey Silence, Edmonton's Low Level Bridge
Cover Art, July 21, 2026 Day 1 painting — The Mother, Grandmother, and Daughter, on the backside of 2018, Smokey Silence. With imagination stretched past the limits of reality, this point of view reveals all four flags that can be seen atop the Alberta Legislature. On the West Wing, the British Union Jack flies. On the front, North Side, Front Entrance, the Lieutenant Governor’s Flag holds its ceremonial post. Over the East Wing, the Alberta Provincial Flag rises above Premier Danielle Smith's office. Above the Assembly where Democracy, Debates and Points of Order collide — the Southside Back Doorway where the common workers to the Peoples House enter and exit — the Canadian Flag completes the quartet. The painting also reveals stormy weather gathering overhead, the sky bruised with unsettled colour, and wildfire smoke drifting through the scene, softening edges, muting distance, and giving the Legislature an otherworldly haze. The Mother, the Grandmother, and the Daughter stand together in the foreground — three generations witnessing the layered symbols of Empire, Province, Office, and Nation, all flickering through smoke and storm.
Alberta Wildfires, Floods, and
Notre Dame Cathedral burning,
...and my 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.
This website was created shortly after this Edmonton Journal news story—my former employer of 27 years—was published. Civil Information Activism (CIA) emerged as Citizen Doug’s Free Press that included posters, paintings, and “Art Show & Tell” works inspired by news events from then to now. Citizen Free News was formally recognized inside the Alberta Legislature by Honourable Speaker Robert Wanner and continues today, even though applications for press‑gallery privileges have been rejected by the Alberta Government. Cont.
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Birds of a Feather Art Project
Faith, Democracy, and Nature.
Free from Artifice
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.
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