Left Stage, Exit Right: Free from ARTifICE: Launching March 20, 2026 — Spring Equinox, End of Ramadan, International Happiness Day. After thirteen years of outdoor community painting in Edmonton’s public squares, I’m stepping into a new chapter. My final canvas — along with my paint box, brushes, and colours — has gone missing. On a fixed income, I can’t replace them, and I’m not willing to sell my paintings to fund new tools. I’ve always believed art belongs with the people who feel something when they see it, so I’ll be giving my remaining paintings away to those who genuinely appreciate the work. This unexpected loss has become a turning point. Instead of ending something, it has revealed what remains: the freedom to create, to witness, and to share — without artifice, and without regret.

Left Stage, Exit Right: Free from ARTifICE marks the beginning of that shift. A lighter practice. A clearer voice. A return to the essentials: Faith. Democracy. Nature. I’ll continue sketching and posting political cartoons on X— the raw, portable free press of the hand — and I’ll keep listening, observing, and documenting the civic life of this city. The outdoor painting chapter may be closing, but art show of democratic storytelling continues. Thank you to everyone who has picked up a brush with me, stopped to talk, shared a story, or added a stroke to a canvas over the past thirteen years. Listen label wear: I wear my HeART because its free.

Thank You, Virgil Abloh, 2019, Chicago,

Figures of Speech. 

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Faith , Democracy and Nature

Art is Freedom

Left Stage, Exit Right, Free from ARTifICE

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