So excited to have another collaboration with the Hive Print Shop for this holiday season.
A traditional 80’s Boom Box T for your vintage vibe T collection.
Get yours here.
‘Part of our ongoing collaboration with local artist Deanna Flinn. Her illustration of a classic boombox in blue ink looks amazing on these made in Canada – 50/50 Ring Spun Poly/Cotton mustard tees.
Hand-screen printed and designed in Vancouver, Canada.’
Lauren, in the ocean on film and in digital too. Sometimes we have to get lost in order to be found again. To let lost we go to the sea and drift, let the water flow into our ears and onto our skin to block out the noise all around. We listen to the sea and we let it fill in the blanks.
And then we move forward, again and again.
It has been an incredible year in many ways and now we are spending holidays in a familiar uncomfortable way.
Joan Didion passed away today at the age of 87. My favourite writer and inspiration. She got up every day, late, got a coke from the fridge and started writing. Every day began like that, no matter what. She lost her daughter and her husband and somehow found it in herself to go on. To keep moving forward. How do we find that kind of hope now? We find it in each other. We need each other. So the next time you see your neighbour say Hi. Make eye contact and greet them some way, you will be surprised at how this will change your everyday interactions.
This week I had a rare Tuesday evening off so I took my 79-year-old artist friend to the Vancouver Art Gallery to pay what you can night. Yoko Ono’s Imagine exhibition was on and I wanted to go, I also wanted to see if I could inspire him in some way. Joe has been a dear friend to me for the past several years. It is him in that image looking closely at the circled piece on the wall that simply says Hi.
I met Joe at a coffee shop when I first moved back to Vancouver in 2015, Delanys. I was sitting with my camera in my lap catching images of passerby’s. He struck up a conversation and we became fast friends riding our bicycles all over town and collecting things from the lanes. I often find things for him and drop them off to him. He is amazed at my gift of finding things, frankly sometimes so am I. One time we found a whole carrot cake, split it and both ate it within a few days.
The pandemic has changed Joe, it has changed all of us. I am doing what I can to show him the life he knew before the world changed. This exhibition was one way I could do that.
I have never experienced such a beautiful, well-constructed interactive art exhibition. The intention of it is simple. Imagine Peace. Yoko’s whole life has been dedicated to peace and this exhibition moved me.
See it, I hope it does the same for you.
I wish you a very Merry Christmas and I can’t wait to see you again soon, in person.
