Saturday Mornings, The Diner opening next Saturday at Latitude 53 in Edmonton

More info here. Opening reception is 7-9pm on Saturday, July 30th. Lindsay, Lia and I will be dressed as diner waitresses and serving coffee. Please drop in if you can!

Experiments

In the process of wrapping up the course in Italy and am reflecting back on the month that I've been here. I think the most valuable part of this experience has been trying things I would not normally have tried, including this little sculpture and installation. It was influenced by the communication within the group of artists and was build from model train lumber that I had leftover from the Banff Bubble project. I wouldn't exactly say I'm a sculptor now, but I did enjoy making this, for what it's worth.

I'm also including a triptych I prepared for my colleague Jagna's show, which was a show within a show. The images were taken in Italy and are about different types of landscape. In any case, I think I'll need to some time to process this experience before I can really understand the transformation in the Corso Aperto (ongoing open studio event) and the course in general.

CSAV blog

Blog from the XVII Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti:

www.fondazioneratti.org/CSAV/blog

Dream Hotel

Did we really see this...

La Dorsale Del Triangolo Lariano

I'm not too keen to post iPhone jpegs, but here are two pictures from the Dorsale Del Triangolo Lariano trek I did this weekend. One is the view from Monte Croce heading down towards Pian Del Tivano yesterday evening and the other is a photo of a trail marker from today. Beautiful trek from Brunate to Bellagio and was a soulful break from the city. I missed the bus from Como to Brunate so slogged up a Grouse-grind-esque slope to the top of the hill. I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my entire life but a good weekend nonetheless!