To The Future Comrade Gus "Gus and I went on

"Gus and I went on a wonderful paddle up the Bonnechere River near Killaloe

"Fanta is the name of my sister - she was named after my Granma

Chiwara is a type of mask in Mali

And Invocation – a summoning or a prayer

the Milky way's powder of stars seen over head

To The Future Comrade Gus "Gus and I went onacrylic 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