​09.05.2026

The foundation elaborates the duality of expectation, the curse offered as a gift.

08.05.2026

The steps flow red with the spilt blood of youth over millennia. This is Tlatelolco.

07.05.2026

The heat weighs heavy now. There is a need to move on. To pedal hard through the early morning cemetery mist. To disengage from the cycle of consumption and release. 

​“06.05.2026”

We do not take the definition nor the construction of concepts lightly… not even time. Example: there is intrigue in the spirographic representation of time employed by the Mayans no matter how arborescent its origins.

​05.05.2026

We have considered the reasoning behind living with high ceilings. For the moment we remain grounded, while heat rises - even after days of cochinita pibil.

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04.05.2026

When I see you word duration I reach for my Bergson.

​03.05.2026

Concepts, and for that matter ideas, are best not left to be polished or purified as Nietzsche proclaimed, but created - concepts as friends that resist being re-buffed.

​02.05.2026

Considering the act of developing a new concept.

​01.05.2026

The slipped pavers have brought us to the rink. We don’t know what this place is capable of yet.

​30.04.2026

Within sight of the plane of immanence.

 

29.04.2026

Magnolia soulangeana - assorted stems arranged in a brick vase potted by Lynne Johnson.

28.04.2026

Edgeworthia Chrysantha - lovingly manicured, sparingly labelled. 

27.04.26

Situational art or whitewashed percepts disguised as low budget graffiti gestures? The Baptists are left wondering.
 

​26.04.2026

The said corner as it was before the migration, the vacancy, the splinted exposition of strata.

25.04.2026

East-side thought control is futile. 
 

24.04.2026

The editorial board requested that this serial architecture be acknowledges as Arch du Trumph. We endure an excess of signification.

23.04.2026

"Mid-century" peel back in Kerripole North, just a moment away from the former Rogers Mansion.
 

22.04.2026

A brief study in three. Bobbie Burgers at the Equinox Gallery. Floral drippings remind us of Yorkshire puddings.

21.04.2026

Oh Cookie!

20.04.2026

The sheer violence of the diesel choked front loader incited laughter as it shovelled the cellular off-cuts pirhouetting in the breeze. 
 

19.04.2026

Random Event, 2026 

(wood, steel, aluminum, trash)

Vancouver, BC
 

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18.04.2026

Transitional however progressive in tint. Warm and clearly spring-like.

17.04.2026

Weather sunny with deception. Coolness extending blossoms in their prime. At ease facing each direction. 

16.04.2026

The nautical theme is extended through the affect of prow-like balconies cast in steel, forged and riveted. 
 

15.04.2026

"Comparing the event to a mist rising over the prairie, we could say that this mist rises precisely at the frontier, at a juncture of events ..." Deleuze, G., The Logic of Sense

14.04.16

Photographer Stephen Shore is featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the moment. His pictures pull me in for many reasons. His compositions are balanced, the colours vibrant, and they clearly evoke a time. But there is also honesty, particularly among the portraits. And then there is the concept of the Road Trip. For I too might feel as though the era of the classic journey by car may be mostly in the past - and as it should be. From the post-was period to the 1980's cars were large and powerful and gasoline affordable. And cars were plentiful in their all of there pre-digital diversity and distinctive odiferousness.  

13.04.26

"The idea of any thing that increases or diminishes, aids or restrains, our body's power of acting, increases or diminishes aids or restrains, our mind's power of thinking." Spinoza, B. Ethics 3p11

12.04.26

PSV extends best wishes to PM who ousts VO just days after JDV endorses the authoritarian status quo. If VPOTUS election meddling generates similar outcomes such endorsements are encouraged. 
 

11.04.26

Laneway editions in the random light of an afternoon commute. 
 

10.04.26 

Reason promotes the elevation of delight as a suitable response to a textured wall in morning light. 

09.04.26

Working on passions after Spinoza, concepts both sad and joyful.

08.04.26

 

 

07.04.26

Living in a recurring, and horrific, nightmare as religion emerges once again as both weapon and illusion.

 

 

 

06.04.26

Realtor's Dream: "The fateful kiss that led to the gradual decline of the double frothed, sprinkle topped, nicotine stained ceilings. Porto-filled sneer jowled. Journal-filled afternoons with southern views. Build to suit."

05.04.26

The semiotics of urban renewal includes the commodification of [de]construction - when the market excels at signifying potential.
 

​04.04.26

A balcony is a palace for oblique individuation.

03.04.26

At the Equinox Gallery there is an installation in waiting. Uncredited - but presumably a photograph by Fred Herzog - and perhaps of a ferry to or from Snug Cove on Bowen Island. Passengers stand or sit in repose, while dressed in finery as was the custom. We are reminded of the Sunday feel of the city back in the day when there was closure, free parking, and a dearth of liquor.
 

02.04.26

Nearby we find a moment to pause and reflect on the purity of the hand drawn graphic and what has been lost in an era of over-saturation.
 

01.04.26

A new articulation of housing erupts nearby. We are reminded of structures rendered in lego with a minimum of large window parts. The massing here excels at frontal facing in the style of Nouveau Bunker-esque. 

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31.03.26

PSV will be following the construction of spatial avoidance at Fraser/Kingsway with a keen eye for accidental series.

30.03.26

Here at the corner of Fraser and Kingsway there is evidence of erasure. The mini-mall with constrained parking options is no longer a last resort for slices, tacos, lottery tickets, or fluff and fold. Our earliest memory of the mall remind us that during a morning commute to work in the late '90's, a bullet was fired into one of the shop windows, perhaps where the jewellery store was located. 

Thereafter we will be able to readily recall the grease trap and rat warrens, and the early photography of a rooftop climber. We are invited to shape our city.

29.03.26

Once the empty room revealed

the ivory bowl of tender fruits, 

all was forgiven -

even the waxen

falsity of their skins.