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		<title>Quilt 7</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2011/09/quilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quilt 7 (2010-2011): 162 x 244 cm (64″ x 96″). Cotton fabric hand-dyed with Procion MX fibre-reactive dyes, cotton thread, polyester thread, polyester batting, backed with cotton-poly navy sheeting. Machine-pieced and -quilted on a Singer 201-3 (made in Clydebank, Scotland &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2011/09/quilt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So you want a PhD in the Humanities</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2011/04/phd_humanities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this the other day.  It makes me laugh, but there&#8217;s a sharp edge to the humour in this movie.  This is for Dr. Jason Sager and all my other friends with PhDs who have found themselves thrust into &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2011/04/phd_humanities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the via ferrata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver Art Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since today is the equinox it seemed appropriate to finally update the interweb with the latest happenings in my corner of the world. I am back at school, studying computer science at UBC and computer technology at BCIT.  I travel &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2010/09/on-the-via-ferrata/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conceptual Craft and Quilting Beaver Creek Farm</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2010/08/conceptual-craft-and-quilting-beaver-creek-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beaver Creek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Kurelek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is raining in Vancouver for the first time in many weeks. Most people don&#8217;t realize that the rainy Pacific Northwest goes through a two-month dry spell each summer. Bone dry. Great swaths of British Columbia are burning right now &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2010/08/conceptual-craft-and-quilting-beaver-creek-farm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lion&#8217;s Gate Quilters Guild Show</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2010/06/lions-gate-quilters-guild-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lion's Gate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Scott and I went to the Lion’s Gate Quilters Guild’s ‘10th Album of Quilts’.  He brought his camera and I took my camcorder, and we drove through Stanley Park and across the Lion’s Gate Bridge to the Delbrook &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2010/06/lions-gate-quilters-guild-show/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Choking Hazard Dolls</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2010/01/on-choking-hazard-dolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this local textile artist almost by accident last year and I return to her Flickr portfolio often to admire these bizarre and imaginative plush creations.  This series is called &#8220;Choking Hazard Dolls&#8221; and incorporates components from old dolls &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2010/01/on-choking-hazard-dolls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Erwin Olaf</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2010/01/on-erwin-olaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[portrait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[representation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott and I went to Europe in June 2007 and while sightseeing in Amsterdam, I visited the Reflex Modern Art Gallery.  The gallery, small and several blocks from the Rijksmuseum, was exhibiting large photographs of women (and one man) variously &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2010/01/on-erwin-olaf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Armchair Architect</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/12/the-armchair-architect/</link>
		<comments>http://christhompson.ca/2009/12/the-armchair-architect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between classes this fall I&#8217;ve been writing letters to Bryan Newson, the City of Vancouver Public Art Program Manager, about the hosted light installation by Diana Thater which stretches 149 metres up the side of Vancouver&#8217;s downtown waterfront Shaw Tower. &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2009/12/the-armchair-architect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Land Art</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-land-art/</link>
		<comments>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-land-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[geoglyph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hill figure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[maze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Smithson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiral Jetty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Land art or earth art has existed for millennia. Materials such as rocks, sticks, soil, plants and so on are often used, and the works generally exist in the open and are left to change and erode under natural conditions. &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-land-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Brian Jungen</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-brian-jungen/</link>
		<comments>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-brian-jungen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rhetorical contextualization of Brian Jungen’s art within the post-modern paradigm That the city of Vancouver, and the province of British Columbia as a whole, are promoted by our government both domestically and abroad as Canada’s Pacific gateway to corporate &#8230; <a href="http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-brian-jungen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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