The Road to Tepeyac: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Alinka Echeverria’s exhibition The Road to Tepeyac is an engaging and empathetically charged installation that is socially relevant on numerous levels.
More calendar than quality: the mediocrity and mythology of Lawren Harris in Where the Universe Sings
The recent film about Lawren Harris has taken on the quality of hagiography, similar to general attitudes about the Group of Seven in larger Canadian society. I offer a response to both the film and this mythology here.
Rust Belt Wonderland
Some thoughts on Bas de Groot’s Welland Memorial and how it evokes personal memories and how it exists in the larger Welland ‘post industrial’ environment.
Some initial thoughts on Welland: nostalgia and rust
Some thoughts on Rod Dowling’s sculptures near the Welland Canal, and how they reflect and respond to larger issues in the Welland Community.