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| Gathie Falk - March 2004 |
In my obsession to tell people that I am waiting to die because I am 83 years old, many tell me that I am healthy and that my brain seems to be in working order. They add that I may have a few more years before I hit my oblivion.
One of the negative aspects of my longevity is that I have only two relatives over 83 who are alive. One is 91 and his sister is 90. Under my age, except for one or two writers I may have worked with in my past they, friends and relatives are all mostly dead.
Before I became busy with Vancouver Magazine in the late 70s I would go to Wreck Beach. My Rosemary kept telling me I was wasting my time. It was on Wreck Beach they I met my very good friend (to this day and he is alive) classic animator Marv Newland.
When I found out today that artist Gathie Falk died I instantly remembered meeting her at Wreck Beach and how we talked about art.
I photographed her on March 2004 for the Georgia Straight. In those years journalism was alive in Vancouver. Both the Straight and the Vancouver Sun covered the arts well. That is now gone.
The one time I saw a work of art by Falk was in the unlikely office of a logging baron. I wrote about it here.
