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A wound gives off its own lightsurgeons say.” Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband. I met Grace Nickel behind my back. Five vessels, shorter vases perhaps,  under plexiglass to keep the gorgeous ceramics safely in view,  rested on the credenza in my Manitoba Arts Council office. I met many fine artists, high and low, gentle and…

Even with M keeping me in bed it’s dark after ten even on Canada Day. Deefer Dog is shaking between us until he’s not and the bangs stop banging. I start my journey into the night my body and my mind insisting on separate rips. I wake as my arm sweeps the tall lotions off…

Language matters. The way we communicate with each other in words, the language that we read, hear, see, watch, matters, and shapes who we are as a society. The old adage “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” might be good to hear as a small child facing tough…

I sometimes imagine at least one of Queen Victoria’s voluminous dresses are made by a time traveling Agnetha Dyck and a coterie of bees gone to London to see the queen. I slowed a little today looking for the quote that God was ill and created the world – made something, even if on the…

My husband and I are both active people. Victor writes, and is currently creating an exhibition for Winnipeg in September, funded by a Canada Council of the Arts grant. I’m a PhD candidate at UBC-O. However, that’s not the full picture. The world sees us differently, because we are both disabled. Victor has multiple disabilities,…

This week letters went out to 12 artists for the Lookshow opening in ArtSpace (WFG Cinematheque & OUTPUT Venues) at the end of September. Murray Toews will lead the way in Winnipeg with Ken Gregory, Grace Nickel, Leif Norman, Nicole Shimonek, Leigh Konyk, Lora Van Loewen making visual images whether still and sculptural or moving on video-tape/digital…

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F.Scott Fitzgerald I sat on my glasses for the last time yesterday. They broke. Glasses have been a part of my life since I was four years…

Victor and I have many conversations at home, over the dinner table, playing with the dog, hanging out listening to music, where we talk about all manner of things. We often talk about our work – Victor as a writer first and foremost, who is now exploring his identity as a disabled man; me as…

April 5th, 2022 LOOK (Formerly known as WITNESS) has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts A lot can change in a month. I’m another year older, my birthday being this week, and this year it’s not during Easter as it sometimes is. I am 67 years old with enough disabilities and pain…

Lookshow [formerly known as witness] will be moving from our Cre8ery location, to an accessible space in Winnipeg and possibly earlier than we originally planned – depending on how our funding and our space hunting goes. We will be needing volunteers for the opening as we anticipate at least a limited audience, socially distanced,  by early Fall – though heaven knows. Our…