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2021, Violet King Henry Plaza - No New Normal
They Sang Songs of Freedom O'Canada
Birds of a Feather Art Project
Faith, Democracy, and Nature
April is Takahē Awareness Month
The Unified Red Zipper Tie
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🌿 Three Grazing Takahē in the Rocky Mountain Grass. Paint was added outside the Alberta Legislature on April Fool's Day and inside Edmonton City Hall on Good Friday. April is Takahē Awareness Month in New Zealand. Tribute painting to Chicago's Virgil Abloh, 2019, Figures of Speech, Unified, Red Zipper Tie began with two Cree brothers adding paint inside the infamous BLM Pekiwewin homeless encampment.
Three takahē wander the Rocky Mountain grass as if they’ve slipped through a seam in the world—ancient, blue‑green, and unhurried. In Māori folklore, the takahē were once thought to be messengers from the deep valleys, birds who carried the memory of the land itself. When they vanished, people believed they had simply stepped into the mist to rest. But the takahē returned—quietly, stubbornly, beautifully—reminding us that some stories refuse to end. Left Stage Exit Right
The Legislature Has No Dome, Unity began on an easel in a light drizzle of rain from the heavens on 15 April 2019, behind Herman Poulin’s Service Through Christ statue — right stage of the Alberta Legislature front steps, below the Lieutenant Governor’s flag and beside the reflection pool — on the same day the world watched the Notre‑Dame Cathedral burn. Dozens of passersby, young and old, on the Alberta Legislature grounds were invited to add a renewal of flowers along the base of the painting, turning the work into a small act of shared civic ritual. I completed it in 2021, during COVID‑19, carrying the story of renewal forward. The Grande Stage Democracy was painted on the backside.
