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Birds of a Feather Art Project
Faith, Democracy and Nature
Cover Art: The Alberta Legislature Diamond Willow Tree located on the back lawns where weather, politics, and personal stories cross paths. In May 2016, it became part of mine. On the day of May 19, 2016, Sarah and I stood beside this tree, facing east into a sky dimmed by wildfire smoke. We said our vows in that half‑glow, wrapped in the stillness of a province in crisis, the smoke settling over the Legislature grounds like a veil. That same year, I was deep in my Fire and Rain art project — 25 paintings, 160 public shows, and a province moving through fire, flood, and renewal. a moment in Alberta’s history — personal and civic weather folding into one frame.
2026-05-13, Paint day under a bright sky, soaking in vitamin D. Gratitude to every contributor — including the government MLA who helped kick off this 2019 painting again, The Legislature Has No Dome, Unity, a name shaped in part by an Alberta Sheriff.
Flip the canvas, and you meet its counterpart: The Grande Stage Democracy. Along the baseline and beside the cross, new flowers bloom — painted by dozens of hands, from kids to elders. They mark renewal, just like the rose bushes rising today from the top of the Legislature, reclaiming the space where the dome once stood. Back in 2022, HBO’s The Last of Us turned the Legislature into a film set and blew the dome apart for season one.
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Art is Freedom
Left Stage, Exit Right, Free from ARTifICE
Life’s too short for small labels. XL Life - Home of my personal 'LISTEN Label Fashion Wear, worn inside the galleries T-shirts and Sports Jersey Cover-Ups. Outside Summer Caps and Winter Toques of Alberta.
Eye on Red Dress, Hike—under six k, in the chilled air. Titled Happy Rest: a female-shaped Italian red coffee pot simmering on the front, flanked by pizza slices and the City of Edmonton emblem, all garnished with words along the edways by a local word‑chef known as the Ukrainian Sausage. Flip it over, and the backside serves as a memory of an Indigenous Red Dress, and asparagus exploding out of a recycling can like a vegetable firework. Bon appétit!
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