Coming January 2015, from Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press


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In process...a book that includes some of the work done during the four years of the Common Plants project.

More Common Plants info coming soon!

A longer version of this entry, with extensive photography, can be viewed on the “Sites and Sounds” page ( Read more... )

This is a photograph of a “Hiker’s Highway”, near San Joseph Bay at Cape Scott Provincial park on the northwest end of Vancouver Island. It was shot by a friend of mine, Vancouver theatre designer Ted Roberts.

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Vancouver. The sky is slightly ominous, with cloud cover fighting to eradicate a band of bright almost blue sky. Dark grey fighting with light grey bleeding into…oyster grey. Two incompatible weather systems duking it out. Can’t wait to see which one wins ( Read more... )

I and the Common Plants members creating a Roots/Routes journey with “Mercedes Bravo” in her native Cuba returned home, to Toronto, in the early hours of February 19, 2008 ( Read more... )

I was lying sleeplessly the other night, trying not to toss and turn, trying to stay still and willing myself to relax and stop thinking, which, of course, made me think of all manner of unrelated things on all kinds of unrelated planes. Mandates, manifestos, statements of purpose…for me these are the fodder of late night conversations with my self ( Read more... )

A couple of impeccably groomed thirty somethings are sitting at a trendy café. They’re toying with salads, occasionally sipping delicately from glasses filled with water, no ice ( Read more... )

Sitting in the rain and fog of an Iqaluit morning (currently +5 degrees celcius) and about to head north ( Read more... )