This series of paintings was produced in the Fall of 2006 in Painting 310 at Emily Carr with Mina Totino. They are large scale and I used some pretty big brushes. The process gave me an appreciation of how physical an exercise it is to paint that big.

The following selection is from a paper that I wrote in Art History 206 in the Spring of 2006 at Emily Carr with Laura Wee Lay Laq. The title is “An Examination of Native and Native-Referenced Art at Kitsilano Secondary School.” In the paper I examine issues of schools and organizations using First Nations signifiers for identification purposes.
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