the pope apologizes

another apology, this one from the pope.....but i'd have to say what difference does it make? the apology won't change my life, and probably not my mother's, she went to st. george's in lytton. which was one of the worst residential schools around from what i've been told. the stats are always different, but the fact remains, at one point, there were 90,000 native kids in residential schools, today, there are approximately 90,000 native kids up for adoption....the residential schools still are a horrific tidle wave crashing across canada, dragging with them generations of native kids, and families. what has changed since steven harper apologized? i don't feel any different, my mum doesn't, and though it was amazing to hear, something i never thought i'd see in my lifetime, nothing has really changed. i don't get a sense of greater understanding nationally about what modern native life is like, in fact, most people probably don't give a damn. all we can do is continue to strive for some kind of equivocal balance with the rest of canada, and quit holding the worst records in the country in terms of violence, substance abuse, prison populations, education, employment, murder, poverty and more. perhaps, the best thing to take from this is that we are no longer survivors, but we are resiliant, and with that, comes the changes we need to make ourselves stand up and feel alive.

the apology part II

Pope Benedickt just apologized to us Indians for the residential schools.........who next? Obama?

apologies mean nothing, after all this hell.......

oil and power.......

we are running down the clock....i know places where we cannot use the water any longer because of poison leaching from the mines into reservoirs......tainting the land forever.....

guns for the damned

we live in an ultra-violent world these days........so violent and insane......

image and power take 2

here's a retake of the 'image and power' video commission i did with artist randall eustache for arnica gallery.......this is the way i really wanted it to look....

i'll be doing a lot more video work.......

serigraffiti show at the KAG!

here's a wee little video i did last night for the serigraffiti show at the kamloops art gallery.......don't just sit there! run! hurry! go see this show! it's still on at the KAG!

GO!

on another note, i was in vernon last week doing workshops and the students i was working with took me down to the train tunnel at polson park and showed me the most incredible street graffiti i've seen in the interior!

and there were about ten homeless people down there who had cardboard shanties set up.....

oh canada.......we stand on guard for greed........

and i almost went boutique shopping at the vernon pro-life thrift store..........not.........

trip hop with tricky

dirge like

crazy.

how are you?

i'm tired.

a lot of traveling, a new baby, madness........

but again, i feel rejuvenated and will begin cranking out new art.....

i'm also doing stencil graffiti and shirts........

gotta keep busy......gotta hustle.........gotta prevail.........

come back again.....

cb

death in the forest.....

a boomeen

here's a drum i did for the play 'the ecstasy of rita joe'
it's based on pictograph art in the secwepemc/n'laka pamux areas
and is called 'the earthquake sisters'. the two spermy looking things are lightning
and the large "X" is the brightest star on the horizon.....and the lines surrounding it are markers of time........

i love painting!

part three of my graffiti triptych

more graffiti..........

another piece i did for my upcoming graffiti show at the Kamloops Art Gallery........
this one is 4 by 6 feet in size......

upcoming art show....

i've got a show at the kamloops art gallery, starting april 4 - may 17th....

this is one of three pieces i did, and it felt really good to do 'real' world art instead of the computerized stuff.....

it's a graffiti stencil show, and it was quite fun to do.....

i'll be posting the rest the next few days......

do come see the show!!!