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On Choking Hazard Dolls

Published on January 17, 2010 By chris

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 “Choking Hazard Dolls” and incorporates components from old dolls that have been reworked with found objects and surgically precise stitches. Inspired by cartoons, comic [...]

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The Armchair Architect

Published on December 22, 2009 By chris

Between classes this fall I’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’s downtown waterfront Shaw Tower. It’s a column of LED lights that are computer programmed to dissolve from green to [...]

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On Brian Jungen

Published on August 10, 2009 By chris

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 prosperity and profit is an unmistaken and unabashed truism in today’s economy of commoditization. That [...]

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