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.