Wednesday, January 18, 2012



Bif Naked -Singer  As I Saw Her in 1993

 I wrote a bit about this here which is all about the man who inspired me to have this show in 1993.

I placed the photographs that I had in that exhibition in the blog yesterday,  for me my best ever, to prove a couple of points. One of them is that the blog version of the show did not cost me a cent. Well not free exactly as I have to pay for my domain name and for my web hosting. But that’s it. It means that the web can now allow us to have shows that one time were prohibitively expensive once you found an art gallery to represent you. In Vancouver that was always tough and I would think even tougher now.

Alas not all is perfection. As in that 1993 show I will not sell anything with this virtual one. That is to be expected. But my real sorrow is that I cannot display here what accompanied that show. My friends from AS I See Them provided me with artifacts central to their life which were displayed at the Threshold Gallery in company to my photographs on the walls. Gibson provided me with the typewriter with which he wrote Neuromancer. Erickson passed on one of his pens and a sketch. Gavin Walker lent (it was tough getting him to do it) us his alto sax and his last ever pack of Kools which he never opened. The list goes on with artifacts that were quirky and intimate. I felt and still feel most blessed.




Dana Luccock - Mezzo Soprano As I Hope To See them in 2012

 Now in 2012 after quite a long time of seemingly being at see without a rudder I have come up with the idea of taking pictures of people from the arts. The photographs would all be similar. The women would all be wearing in some way my mother’s antique Mexican rebozo as the one worn by mezzo soprano Dana Luccock and they would be taken with the same gray seamless, same lens and camera. This time around I will not shoot in b+w and colour. That rebozo will only shine with Ektachrome. The men will not be forced to wear that rebozo! But should they volunteer…

The photographs will accompany some sort of essay written by my subjects that will begin Me and my…. They will write about something in relation to what they do. Once I have a few I will post them on this blog as a long string or, perhaps in haphazard manner.

These essays will be direct, and I hope, far more intimate versions of As I See Them from, excuse the expression, the horse’s mouth.

Dana Luccock-The Resolution Towards a Portrait

Yvette Hernandez - Actress



Sandrine Cassini - Choreographer/Ballet Dancer