garden row markers face unemployment!
Have you heard of square foot gardening? It has really taken off because you don’t need to plant your veggies in a row any more.
The only downside now is the high unemployment for garden row markers!
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 Currently, the Downtown Nanaimo Gallery is featuring 2012 Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts: Mail Art Exhibition until May 22, 2012. What is mail art? It is art sent through the mail.
Artists from 25 countries have mailed postcard sized art to the curator, Ed Varney of Courtenay, on the theme of “Hard Work – Work & Labour.” There are 125 artists from around the world who have mailed in their art and the artworks feature painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, photography and other media.
From rayjohnson.org:
“Mail art began in New York in the 1950s by art professor Ray Johnson and was seen as one of the new “communication arts”, a form of media aesthetics that evolved alongside video art. It is in this precise sense that mail art could be said to only have “a present” – a present of communicational events, of uncontrollable exchanges, of things arriving and departing at unforeseen times and places, thanks to the medium of postal system, which, just like television, could be seen to distribute “signals” across the boundaries of time and space.”
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island weather zones
It’s sunny here!
How’s the weather where you are?
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 Gabriola is considering painting its poles. Earlier this year, the Gabriola Arts Council was approached by BC Hydro, asking if they would consider painting some of the hydro poles on the island. BC Hydro told them they will not approve designs, just locations. They also suggested that the Arts Council let the public know what images are proposed, how many poles it intends to paint in total, and that it has a pole paint maintenance budget. Apparently, this discussion about painting power poles has polarized Gabriola, with some people for and others against the idea.
Elsewhere, other communities, such as Burnside Gorge in Victoria, are seeing pole painting as a way to deal with graffiti.
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Island rabbit
It’s that time of year
when people start feeling
long in the ears!
Hop, hop, hop ……..
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waiting for spring
The island clown was looking down.
Why?
He couldn’t see the flowers in the hanging basket!
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