Ho Tam Press Gallery

Elza Mayhew’s Coast Spirit has been with me since I started working at the University of Victoria in 1983.  Situated in front of the McPherson Library, this monumental bronze column…

I consider  Morandi in his bedroom, painting images of bottles in Bologna while fascists take hold of Italy and think about about the relevance and significance of my ‘practice’. Adopting…

During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall , I would sit, open my eyes and meditate on that section of the wall for the same length of time…

“We face the imperative to understand anew today what it might mean for photography to ‘move beyond representation’.” (Hito Steyerl from ‘Documentary Uncertainty’)

“you don’t have any ideas, you start making work without an idea, I always have an idea before I begin making a piece”

I came upon this in Laurie Anderson’s essay Time and Beauty. IS SOME ART MORE BUDDHIST THAN OTHER ART? A lot of the art I happen to like seems to…