In Memory of David Lynch,
Virgil Abloh, and Dennis Edney
Art is Freedom
Left Stage, Exit Right
Free from ARTifICE
Eye on Red Series
The Red Italian Coffee Pot
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🌿 Art, Protocol, and a Moment of Reciprocity. An Elder who once served on the Edmonton Police Commission told me I no longer needed to picket—my art, he said, was already doing the work needed to help bring change. His words stayed with me. I offered him an Art is Freedom baseball cap, and he placed in my hands a sack of Tobacco, an Indigenous tradition of gratitude and trust. I want to acknowledge the Alberta Government and staff for their sensitivity in removing the trash cans that had been placed too close to the Red Dress artifact. Small actions like this matter—they honour the families, the stories, and their memory.
Since early retirement from my job as a graphic‑arts craftsman, I’ve painted more than 200 works, completed 10 social art projects, and staged hundreds of outdoor and indoor art shows in the public and private squares of Alberta— from the hiking trails surrounding the banks of Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park to the unwelcoming confines of Edmonton City Hall, where I also practice free press, and shared my stories as a citizen with a brush in hand. Left Stage, Exit Right: Free from ARTifICE, 2026 marks the beginning of a shift — a return to the basics of creativity where it began when we were young. 
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.