It’s still me and the birds outside the window. To honour the brave wee souls I have displayed in Gallery two bird themed pieces. The photo-haiga using found text is from the old Canary Restaurant in Toronto’s port lands. (The building has been restored along with the rest of the Distillery area and has been stripped of its evocative, working-class past.) The cigar box assemblage that I made with an unintentional bird theme, is the inspiration of my sister, Vicky, and her wealth of tiny treasures from ‘antique’ stores and dollar stores, real and virtual.
April is poetry month and with much happening on-line, I have finally forged new work, still in early versions, inspired by birdscape and sunsong, and posted in Reading Room.
But oh, the bird-brains. Now that the cold sun of spring has blown the dust out the synapses, and ideas abound, there is the matter of somehow completing everything started. Things pile up, silent reminders to balance between getting organized and taking flight.