I’ve just launched my first newsletter, Context Switch! Each month, I’ll let you know about what I’ve been up to– publications, events, any workshops I’m leading. And then a few times a year, I’ll feature a profile interview with an artist from a wide range of disciplines, about all the different stuff they do, and the career pivots they’ve made, to keep creative life going. My first interview, with Natalia Yanchak, of The Dears and […]
Announcement: Later this week, I’m headed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for my first weeklong residency in the MFA Creative Nonfiction programme at the University of King’s College.
The long goal is for every season to be garden season– to make ourselves as hardy and resourceful as the few vegetables that can still grow through a Montreal winter. To build cold frames and greenhouses, and get out there managing crops year round. For now we’re just trying to do better than last year. Not that last year was bad– it was great– and most importantly it was better than the year before, which […]
I’ve been collecting archival information about my grandmother, Bessie Murray, and the Nova Scotia Tartan. I found this Macleans cover from 1957 in an old email from my dad, that I think really gets across the “tartanism” of the time. The tartan was just four years old at this point, and apparently, already plastered all over everything– thanks in large part to the initiative of premier Angus L. Macdonald. Despite its name, Nova Scotia at […]
Dressing the loom takes an eternity.
Linking to two Discoglobe Interactive posts about videogame scope.
I break out my speedweve loom for the first time and make patches ’til the sheep come home
I detail my plans for creating a Montreal Tartan, and make my first warp– that’s the long vertical threads– for the loom, with Penelope’s help.
My new-old loom needs some work to make it usable. It also gets a new name.
In which I go out and find myself a loom, and wonder how my grandmother would have handled the Internet.
