To The Future Comrade Gus Chiwara is a type of

Chiwara is a type of mask in Mali

the Milky way's powder of stars seen over head

other times it forms part of the background for the flowers from my garden or the crockery from my kitchen

These works are conceptually simple

Also the big Oak tree trunk

To The Future Comrade Gus Chiwara is a type ofacrylic and photo collage on birch panel 24 X 24 in. 2016 "This is a picture from the weekly farmers market at Hoch Farm in Killaloe Ont. I asked my daughter Gus, a talented actor, to hop up on the old tractor and appear as if she is driving it somewhere. I love how the lens fractured the appearance of the wheels. If that was a real tractor it would clearly just be driving in circles in a completely unstable trajectory. Maybe something like all of us