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Crescent Beach painter and art therapist Cora Li-Leger tells an amazing story in which she became her own art therapist and her own client as a series of paintings ushered her through a serious medica
Happy New Year. It has been a wonderful year of sculpting here on Quadra Island, a wonderful year of exhibiting my work in the city, and a wonderful year of reflecting on various kinds of things and
The sun told me to stop grinding and take the first picture, and as soon as I could clean the dust from my hands I did. Words came later, as I imagined what the images actually say about me, and about
During a recent telephone outage on Quadra Island, it drove us up the wall trying to find a way to communicate with Telus about the outage. We did find two wonderful Telus people to help us, but Telu
In my last article I implied that human beings are born creative, then either stay that way or grow less so through socialization. From very early in our lives, we live in a space of...
What makes the difference between creative people and the rest of us? People have been asking this for a long time and there is a lot to read about it. I have read a lot of it. ...
At the risk of telling you more about sculpting than you ever wanted to know, or giving you too much information about my personal life, I’ll tell you a story. It’s almost a confession.
One of the great truths of Newtonian physics is that what goes up must come back down again. A fundamental truth of biology is that what goes in the front end must either stay in or come out the back...
