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.

28.03.26

The cafe sits across from the building that housed the tofu factory that closed thirty years ago. While much has changed there is a lot that remains the same. Like the caryatids standing unburdened in the faux portico. Or the aftertaste of the sauce spread across the focaccia baked next door only a day old. And the pawn broker whose grilled windows separate the sticky fingers from the cordless drills. After forty years of sitting here lies a wealth.
 

 

27.03.26

Homer Street Free Bike Deconstruction Parking. Bring a lock. Lose components, saddles and wheels. All makes and models accepted. No valet on site.

26.03.26

DePencier House at 151 East 8th Ave (1958, CVA). Widely considered to be the oldest inhabited house in Vancouver outside of the downtown core. 

On the evening of March 25th, 2026 an upstairs fire burned out much of the two top floors. A faulty electric blanket was the alleged source (2026, PFB). 

It has been determined that the barbershop is intact, but water damage has seeped and warped its way into the neighbouring osteria. 

"It was built in 1889 for early Mount Pleasant settlers, Henry (d. 1909) and Mary (d. 1896) DePencier, who lived here with their children and a domestic servant named Sarah Lowe. Henry DePencier was a grocery retailer whose store was located next door to his home. Giving up the retail trade, DePencier later worked as manager for North Pacific Lumber Co. and briefly, in 1891, a City of Vancouver councillor." (C. Hagemoen, 2022)

25.03.26

The shock of the real is hyperreal when "Dr. Scott's Electric Corset Stimulates Vital Organs." 

24.03.26

The philosopher, like the painter, must begin with portraiture before landscapes and work in colours that remind us of mud and potatoes (after Deleuze).
 

23.03.26

The paradox continues to confound. How many know so much about so little; and so little about so much. (Ovoids featured are fabricated in Abu Dhabi, to be installed in post-colonial drainage system.)

22.03.26

Considering the dogmatic image of thought.

21.03.26

Sense (the fourth way) after denotation, manifestation, and the signifier. A linguistic crossroads. We are prone to jaywalk.

20.03.26

Between the body and the concept lies sense.

19.03.26

Fragments of orange can not do justice to this monumental grid of 15 mm bars.
 

18.03.26

We were amused how orange cordoned off the suspension of a twinned (dizygotic) load which remained aloft for a span of time that allowed for one drop off, a read chapter, and a curt reply.
 

17.03.26

Orange designates in reflection an oblique transmission of supportage.
 

16.03.26

(semi-urgent) > pi x r (squared) / 2 

 

15.03.26

Orange in a minor key, fit for a fake king intent on slaughtering innocence - indiscriminately. 

14.03.26

The study in orange is ongoing. Orange signifies an alert, a hazard, the possibility of ignition. And it can indicate a wall free of buttressing. 

13.03.26

Splinting orange along Kingsway as we await the stripping back of the hansard facade.
 

12.03.26

This was until recently the site of a small intersectional estuary where sparrows would nest in a curated garden. Now shaved clean for the to and fro movement of debris, clay, and sediment. A letter will be posted requesting a triangular upgrade.
 

 

 

11.03.26

High noon over another scarification zone. This line looks west along Broadway at Main. Cover, uncover, (re)cover. 

 

 

 

10.03.26

The tubular array has extended outward today. A future held in darkness, the direction of flow will transect this region of subdued Kerripole for another generation. 

 

09.03.26

A tubular installation in the hybrid zone now colloquially known as Upper Kerripole.