🎨 Pop pop Dazzled by Every Day and Abstracts of Light and Shadows present a cut‑up visual narrative on YouTube — a look back that also glimpses the unknown ahead. The method traces back to something I first encountered inside the old Art Gallery of Alberta, where I learned to interlace recent and archived citizen‑free news stories with layered sound and shifting visuals. Over time, this process became its own art form: a fresh narrative born through the cut‑up technique — découpé, as the French say. The original cut‑up method began with the dissection and reassembly of written text, transforming it into new meanings. Rooted in the Dada experiments of the 1920s, it was William S. Burroughs who carried cut‑ups into the spotlight in the 1950s and early ’60s. For Burroughs, they weren’t just a technique — they were a form of prophecy. Cut‑ups unlock hidden meanings, fracture time, and offer fleeting glimpses of what may come. Play one YouTube video or many simultaneously. Whether approached as divination or as a spark for the imagination, watch, listen and enjoy.
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🎨 Artist Statement: Edmonton is Alberta’s bourgeois city when it comes to the arts — a city where the centre of gravity leans toward the safe, the respectable, and the institutionally approved. Yet it’s precisely within that polite middle that my work takes root. I paint, cartoon, and document in public spaces as an act of democratic free press, inviting anyone passing by to step into the story. My practice in the arts has always lived in the tension between the official culture and the unruly, collaborative, street‑level creativity that thrives beneath it. I work in the open: listening, sketching, remixing civic moments, and passing the brush to strangers, families, students, and politicians alike. Each piece becomes a shared record — part folk journalism, part outsider art, part civic‑pop ritual. Where the city prefers polish, I offer process. Where it prefers distance, I offer participation. Where it prefers certainty, I offer curiosity. This is art as public conversation. This is free press without a press pass. This is the bourgeois City of Edmonton, seen from the ground up.
Pop pop Dazzled by Everyday
Abstracts of Light and Shadows
