re: winter time is nearly over? what already?

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's been awhile, i think i'm writhing around, deep in mid-life crisis, too poor for a fancy sports car, i'd rather buy guitars and art supplies anyway, and spoil my kids. haha. but here are a selection of photos from travels near and far. this winter has been short, and i fear it's going to be scorchingly hot, full of fires in the southern interior and horrid insects like ticks. as usual thinking lots about life and the choices and directions i've taken while on this trip, some pretty good, some pretty bad, and still i stumble on like david choe once said, "artists are a bunch of depressed, manic, self-absorbed son's of bitching a-holes, but incredibly fun" and i guess i'm no different. haha.

have a look at the photos, some are artsy and some are fartsy, you decide which is witch!

until next time lovers,


Chris Bose III, esquire.

december 2015

december 2015 secret place

december 2015

secret place

december 2015 ?

december 2015 ?

good bye winter, i'll miss you

in some ways. 

my daughter

i miss very much

summer 2014

my other daughter

i also miss very much

summer 2014

my son i miss very much

december 2015

?

?

my old truck

i kind of miss

a friend i miss

?

my bro Nigel Spaghetti

this kid, i wish

i had that shirt still

i remember it a bit

still had baby teeth, so i'm guessing

6 or 7 years old?

epic. 

look what we once had

in abundance

in BC?

Almost all gone. 

cool. 

idea.

should some with John A. Mcdonald 

who once boased 

"we keep our indians on the brink of starvation"

when boasting about how "efficiently" 

he ran the country. 

Re: shots from the road....

Hello lovers,

Traveling through small towns can be weird, especially dying towns, there's a strange vibe and haunting beauty in watching a town empty out and die....

The interior of BC is semi-arid desert so it looks a lot like New Mexico and Arizona....

Breaking bad could be filmed here and you'd never notice the difference....

re: morbid melancholia....

hello freaks, fans, foe, lovers, sinners and winners,

i bring you morbid melancholia.

the weather has been weird. extreme grey, dull days, which are followed by insanely bright sunny days that are full of wind that blows the dust around town even harder, reminding us or perhaps asking us, what are we doing in a city on the edge of forever and nowhere?

what do you think? where are you living? how does it treat you? how has your winter been if you've had one?

until next time lovers,


CB

re: desert city queen.....

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers and leavers,

i bring you the desert city queen.

the other night some friends passed through town and some hijinks ensued. it was great fun.
but what it really did was remind me i'm somewhat isolated up here in the interior of b.c.

the night life consisted of running a gamut of crackheads and meth junkies between the three or four pubs that were open. 2 of which were total dives. haha.

and still, everything closed at 1 a.m.

i'm not part of the young, hipster art crowd, most of which is university driven of course, in fact i'm quite sure if i showed up at some hipster art gathering, arguably, they'd wonder whose dad i was! haha. and the rest of the various art cliques in this city, i am also not a part of, so where does that leave me you might wonder? usually at home making art! haha! which is more fun anyway.

i also watch "vice guide" on youtube, which is hilarious. vice was a magazine that came to prominence in the 1990's and was the cool magazine people loved because it was free. well, they're still around, and probably stronger than ever, and have their own youtube channel, which is chock full of hilarious and informative things. check it out. it's what helps keep me sane in this dust blown somewhat very redneck town while waiting for my kids to get older so we can leave. haha.

also, i curate art shows and work to build up the Arbour Collective, the group i co-founded with Nacoma George. we're really kicking ass and working hard to create our own arts and media centre here in kamloops, bc. and help represent urban aboriginal people with art shows, festivals, workshops and the like. why? because no one else is doing it.

there are many more reasons, but for now, i've got to go and pick up the art book/catalogue (i designed and worked on forever) from the printers. will post pictures and if you want a copy, private message me and i'll send you one.

until next time lovers,


CB

The Best Place on Earth.......?

God, i couldn't resist myself on this one. the bullshit hoopla of the olympics, which keeps getting more and more expensive.....homeless rates up 373% since 2006, child poverty in BC is 1 in 5 kids living/raised in poverty, though, the number is probably higher...and so on.

i grew up poor. i mean, i grew up with a single aboriginal mother, who was 16 when she had me. sometimes, i feel like a veteran of some nameless, endless war.....lean forward and whisper into your ear.....'I've seen shit man....shit you wouldn't believe!!!"

i live in a town that until somewhat recently, has been a brutally racist place to live. indians used to get jumped and beaten, myself included, for nothing other than being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. now the racism is subtle. a little bit more anyway.

first nations people hold all the records in canada, highest dropout rates, highest rates of children up for adoption, highest suicide rates, highest HIV/AIDs rates, highest prison population male and female, most likely to die violent death, highest spousal abuse rates, etc, etc.....you get the picture.

in a land, where supposedly, we get free houses, free education, and so on.

right.

we need leaders. we don't need chiefs acting as 'politicians.'

obviously, their way of doing 'business' just ain't working.

'cause nothing has improved or changed thanks to them.

things just keep sliding.

it's enough to make a person say, "GFY!"

when you are told about the land of opportunity and the rest of that horseshit.