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Methods of Creation

More Thoughts on Creativity

My last column was the first in a series on the drama of robins nesting in my outdoor sculpting studio. Without ironic intention, I suggested that on the deepest level, to be creative involves the...

The deep meaning of creativity

This year, for the first time since my studio was completed four years ago, a pair of robins nested right in my outside carving area. Robins had nested in similar places on the other side of the...

Further Reflections on Interviewing

Since last Sunday’s broadcast of my interview with Sheryl MacKay on CBC-1 radio program North By Northwest, things have been wild at the Petley Jones Gallery, where my exhibition closed on Sunday,...

In Praise of Sheryl MacKay and the CBC

As I once said to UBC President Martha Piper in a letter, individual listeners have tremendous power to draw clear, powerful speaking out of people. I was referring at the time to students helping...

Discover the Integrity Of my Form

Here is the next in a series of posters and poems that are appearing here each day this week to promote an upcoming exhibition of my sculptures at the Petley Jones Gallery (see details below...

Discover the Integrity Of my Form

Here is the next in a series of posters and poems that are appearing here each day this week to promote an upcoming exhibition of my sculptures at the Petley Jones Gallery (see details below). The...

Touching With Your Fingertips

www.leegass.com/ [by Lee Gass]

Find Yourself In My Light

Yesterday I posted the first of a series of posters and poems that will appear each day this week to promote an upcoming exhibition of my sculptures at the Petley Jones Gallery (see details below...

Touch Me

by Lee Gass It is wonderful to hear that my sculptures “touch” people. This use of the term is interesting, though, given the traditional taboo against touching works of art in museums and galleries...

Nature’s Little Squeegees

If you’ve spent long hours sanding rocks, furniture, or anything else without gloves, you may have noticed something that fascinates me every time it happens.
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