Western Canada's art magazine since 2002
3 July 2018 Vol 3 No 14 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2018
From the Editor
Portia Priegert
I wasn’t going to write an editor’s note. I’m trying to recharge this summer by enjoying life a little more and working a little less. But then, yesterday, as I weeded my new plot in the community garden a few blocks from home, I started thinking how the blustery winds and dappled sunlight made me feel like I’d dropped into an Impressionist painting.
Cycling off toward the ocean, I noticed white-capped waves driving into shore, and was reminded of The Regatta, which we are running in our next issue with a story about the J.W. Morrice exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Ah, I thought, the prevailing wind. That’s why all my tomato plants are leaning like Group of Seven pines.
Some people experience their lives to soundtracks. I, apparently, bop along on a visual trajectory, perhaps under the influence of the hundreds of artworks I look at each week.
As I worked on this issue, I was fascinated to learn about age-old tattoo traditions that Indigenous artists are now reclaiming. It was interesting too, to read about Adad Hannah’s remake of a classic painting from the First World War, Gassed, by John Singer Sargent.
I thought about different cabins I’ve visited on outdoor adventures as I edited a story about Cabin Fever at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Then came artwork by Gathie Falk for my essay about her just-released memoirs. Images arrived from Edmonton for a story about Monica Tap’s latest landscapes and another batch followed from a grassroots show about evolving understandings of gender and sexual identity.
Phew!
Art – like life – can move quickly. The images that inform my visual palette blend and shuffle like an iPod playlist as artists find new ways to explore where we have been, where we are now and where we may be headed.
Art enriches our lives in myriad and mysterious ways.
I hope something in this issue speaks to you.
Until next time,
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Beverly Cramp, Paul Gessell, Fish Griwkowsky, Kayleigh Hall, John Thomson