Risa Horowitz

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Sketch for a series addressing the Arctic imaginary of being alone-ness A fellow artist admonished me for capturing her on camera during a 2017 residency in Svalbard aboard the tall ship Antigua. On a Zodiac cruise one morning in yet another stunning fjord, with my camera...

A piece of my writing and photographs arising from my artist residency in Svalbard last year, in Volume 2 of PolarLit

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Photo a rocky arctic meadow littered with old whale bones and the lush green life nourished by them, with green rectangles obscuring people.

Sigh

Nope. Reminded me of that time I drew a challenge from a young man with MANGROVE, but more innocent like

Hey. I played OIL?KINS at club tonight. It drew a challenge (against a teenager).

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.

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THIS

I was NOT a good security guard….

At least tell me his name so I know who I am dealing with in my home riding… (regrets accepted)

Hello Neighbour

That’s not bullying, it’s harassment

Sure… but the use of the word based on its actual origins… author could have dug more in to that. Tx. I did already write PM Trudeau when he first gulped out the words during that press conference…using a hockey jersey pull analogy (wishful thinking)… gimmicks yes

Input needed: good reasons why Canadian government officials should NOT use the word ‘czar’ for Canadian government job roles.

For my imminent letter writing campaign.

Go.

“In other words, we owe nothing to anyone outside our bunker.”… see… but… it is not only the armageddon bunker right who feel this way….

It always snows in late April and sometimes early May in Regina…

MY WARNING TO CANADIANS: DO NOT TRAVEL TO TRUMP LAND A Chilling New Reality at the Border

Here is my latest on the threats facing travellers going into the United States.
This is no longer a nation under the rule of law. The United States has been taken over by political ideology abusing power to carry out political vendettas.
This is fascism.

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Our Charlie, he’s bad, he’s nation-wide🎸:

Globe editorial: Empathy is the foundation of civilization, not its weakness Skeptics of the impulse should know that history shows trying to squelch empathy can lead to dark places

On empathy

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Blocking is great here!

You do that?

Today is ON leadership. Fed to come soon… unsure when PEI and NL will call it but with resignation of both Premiers something’s coming. Worrisome…

Oy

Is anyone talking about Premiers dropping like flies out east?

I really enjoyed touching some of these in Regina in fall.

I have stopped counting the number of promos that galleries and curators put out there that do not name the artists involved. We know what their priorities are, I guess.

Opposite. They never registered my updated credit card renewal date (given with plenty of time to spare); customer service wouldn’t help, sub got cancelled.

Mel Bochner, Conceptual Artist Who Had a Way With Words, Dies at 84 Mel Bochner, a famed Conceptual artist whose art was frequently composed of words, has died at 84.

Mel Bochner died this week :(

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My Canadian google showed the update…

Anselm Kiefer: Early Works review – his Nazi salute dominates a show haunted by horrors Ashmolean Museum, Oxford From shocking images of him Sieg Heil-ing to a woodland watercolour haunted by the atrocities of war, the German artist confronts his homeland’s fascist past – and it’s never felt so relevant When he was 24, Anselm Kiefer found…

Anselm Kiefer: Early Works review – his Nazi salute dominates a show haunted by horrors

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