Blog - Time's Arrow Series
Using Portrait Linen canvas for the first time!
I decided to try portrait linen after having spent many years using regular cotton with what I thought was a fairly smooth weave. I tried a double-primed Claessens fine linen. It was difficult to stretch, and I think that in the future, I will use unprimed linen and...
Time’s Arrow
1939 Maple Leaf This rare Maple Leaf truck was built in Canada in 1939 and symbolizes a focus on Canada’s National identity as Canada entered World War II. This truck was an US brand in all but name. The old garage in the background symbolizes the era of the gas...
Time and change
Time’s Arrow Series 1931 Chevy Truck in the Woods 1931 Chevrolet Truck This work aims to contrast the linear and machined image of the rusting wreck with the organic and lyrical movement of the trees and grasses. The truck is now...
A new direction in my work
Time’s Arrow Series Abandoned and ignored. The dry grasses create a camouflage suited perfectly to the hunting coyote. The machine gazes on harmless and silent, it too becoming landscape, a coral reef on the prairie, offering...
A new direction in my work
Time’s Arrow Series 1936 Dodge Fargo truck This beautiful Dodge Fargo truck (1936) has been cannibalized for parts and sits on the edge of the field, slowly sinking into the weeds. The patina of rust has replaced most of the...
A new direction in my work
International Harvester , 1939. Time’s Arrow Series International Harvester Truck, 1939 This truck, produced at the start of World War II, is from makers of farm equipment and other vehicles. The setting, the Big Muddy badlands of Southern Saskatchewan highlight the...
A new direction in my work
Time’s Arrow Series The McCormack binder. This part of the machine with long metal fingers, engaged in bundling and tying sheaves. Like sewing machines, these binders stitched the sheaves of grain together and replaced a great deal hand work and reduced the...
A new direction in my work
International Harvester Binder in the Grass Time’s Arrow Series The McCormack and the International Harvester Binders once cut and bundled the grain into sheaves as the first part of the harvest process. The parts are cast metal and machined gears still showing their...
A new direction in my work
1936 Dodge Fargo truck Time’s Arrow Series My works are not a sentimental journey into a past way of life on the Canadian prairie, but a visualization of the laws of entropy and our endless march towards change regardless of its value. We can lament the lost...