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Rhonda and I are getting down to work again. Finally we are finding an opportunity to print the woodblocks that we cut last summer in Saskatchewan. We are printing at Kamloops Printmakers in Kamloops, BC. Here is the print from the block cut at Spring Valley. We have thirteen large format blocks from which we intend to print seven images in small editions. This work and the drawings also completed last summer in Saskatchewan will be the core of our exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Regina next February.

Photo credit to James Lisitza. Quebec City, 1972 in the middle of an eight-month long cross Canada tour. The group was Jalal; members include Garry Brown, Larry Brown and Jack Lenz (behind me on a Hammond B3).

There are lots of artists in the neighborhood around my studio.  Also, rehearsal spaces for bands, dance studios, design studios and coffee joints. We have seen one or two movies or television shows filmed here, too.  Over the past four days a crew built this set in the middle of an intersection just two blocks away.  Work went on nearly twenty-four hours a day - re-routing traffic and putting security people everywhere.  It is only the facade of a house you can see through to the other side.  I wonder what is going to happen with that worm hole?

Rhonda and I are working in Saskatchewan all through the month of July.  We have a show at the Art Gallery of Regina in 2014 and are taking an early opportunity to get some ideas together for it.  The joy of being here is that it gives us a chance also to re-connect with friends.  Tonight we had supper with Ryan Arnott and Marsha Kennedy who is curating the show.  I caught some light-hearted moments on my camera.