Take The Risk, It's The Edmonton Thing To Do!
Chicago 2019, Virgil Abloh, Figures of Speech.
2020, Wear Red as we go marching, Rome is burning. When I first looked at it, it reminded me of Notre Dame Cathedral burning. It also reminds me of some of Van Gogh’s paintings. If we are burning now, like Notre Dame, we will rise better and stronger." - Marg McCuaig-Boyd, 2020, former Alberta Energy Minister, NDP Government.
13 Painters, April to August.
"A Crows Nest and 2 Punjabi Ladies"
2024, Asian Heritage Month Art Project.
2025-02-03, Dear Sister Kate and Husband Phil. On a Sunday's mission of sharing my art, I took a 30-minute ride from downtown Edmonton on the South Valley Line Train to Millwoods. After the ride, and later inside a church, I showcased your, Phil's, and Meghan's 2024 painting: "A Crow's Nest and 2 Punjabi Ladies," painted by 13 artists, ages 5 to 69. During an Art Show & Tell LISTEN visit inside the church, I met Lead Pastor Phil Kniesel at Hope City Church, and we agreed there is no free press in Canada. On the return trip, I rode the train with another passenger named Kate, a Psychology student at Grant MacEwan University. At the end of the line, we both agreed that there is more good in the world and inside people than bad, Canadian maple syrup is sweeter than vinegar, and love will always trump hate.
Minus 30 Windchill, Art Show & Tell, LISTEN, February 1, 2025, City Hall, AGA, LRT, UofA, and Violet King Henry Plaza, named after Canada's first black female lawyer. Celebrating the first day of Black History Month, my community artwork, Homme Made, Dundee Law, celebrating Virgil Abloh and Dennis Edney, was met with Art Gallery of Alberta censorship and Street and Public Square friendship.
2025-01-31, University of Alberta, Painting, Homme Made, Dundee Law, Painter's Notes: Last night, while waiting for an LRT train inside the University of Alberta, I noticed a heavyset white male, in his 30s with an angry look, waiting on the platform. He glanced at me and my painting, "Homme Made, Dundee Law" and I thought, maybe he was just having a bad day. We boarded a crowded train headed for Central, but between the U of A and Government Center Station, the angry white man unleashed his fury on an Asian woman half his size seated next to him, taunting her and calling her a "Jungle Monkey." Across from him was a mixed couple, black and white, watching and listening to this man's bad behavior, as we all did within earshot of this horrible display of hate on the Northbound LRT train. We crossed the North Saskatchewan River, and an announcement came over the PA system stating that the red buttons above the doors were provided for our safety in case of an emergency. I had my bear whistle handy in case the angry white man became violent with the Asian woman next to him, and I was closest to the panic button. The train stopped at Government Center, and I got off three stops early to catch the Nait Train that was completely empty, not wanting to be around if the situation on the Clairview Train if it escalated into violence. Everyone except the mixed couple either moved off the train or took another seat. As a senior I've been physically attacked downtown multiple times, after the City of Edmonton Council voted to defund the police and the morale of the EPS plummeted, and crime increased.
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