Vanessa has Secrets

Boca Buds

Eski Plan

Ours

Family wax seals, forged from salvaged metal, each with cute little cards detailing their original meaning....could they be anymore sickeningly precious.

Cameron is the Babe at the end of the Rainbow

This is Cameron Reed as painted by Robert Mearns. Cam and I produced a show called Mr. Bojungles and the Psycho Safari (Matt Aiken always hated that title...thanks again Emily Carr) at a little spot called Midtown, that's now the Bangtown Saloon on Pender at Richards. His music project Babe Rainbow is right up my alley.

Swirly Birds

Candy and Jewels

Originally titled "ESPN" for Pacificthorn group show.

Another Basement Find

"Ok kids, finish your dinner, and then you can kick each other's asses. Remember Cody, I've got serious scratch on this...so watcha gonna do?...Huh?...that's right your goin down in the fourth...aint that right"

dubstep slippers

We found these in the basement, and they're supposed to massage your feetsies....but they just vibrate in a pervy fashion...not very appropriate for cute conjoined kitten message slippers. Filthy...I'm still wearing them.

This isnt my Dad

Attention: Death, Disorder vs. ESKIS

This piece is the marriage of two graphic narratives I've been developing with the help of a few friends for the last couple of years. The first "Attention: Death, Disorder" I dreamed up with Owen Milburn late one night in the fall of 2004. A:D,D we figured could be summed up in one sentence: A post apocalyptic matriarchal society leading to an androgynous race. The second narrative being what started out as The Eskiboys in November 2008 with Rami Roppo and Jamie Bizness, and has developed into Eskis today, if for no other reason than to be gender non-specific. Its hard to sum this one up other than to say it represents a global psychic connection of like minded and caring people. "There are many truths" says Rami.

So in this piece the Eskis are being empowered by the matriarchy of A:D,D to topple Christianity, and thus the paper on the barbwire in the foreground that reads "The End of Men". The sideways cross is one consistent use of symbols adopted by our narrative to both represent the present day misuse and misrepresentation of religion, and to poke fun at the Satanists for the mainstream use of the upside down cross. The Foreground Character is in classic A:D,D stencil style and features blood red hair which could be interpreted as the blood of a war like struggle, or the rust of infrastructures decay.

This piece sums up the narratives well in that the mixture of fact and fiction, peppered with humour has been the driving dynamic that brought about their existence in the first place.

Mr T Bone

Yeah...ahhhhh.

Now watcha gonna do?!