Making art. Moving minds
The art I create at my collage table is largely personal and of the moment. I have been marking my journey into retirement from full-time work for more than three years and, over that time, I have amassed a goodly number of pieces — some purely visual, others a combination of words and images. Some I have shared with others, some I have posted here on this blog, but many others are simply on my shelf. And that’s fine for me and for my art. However, there is a place in this world for very public displays of art — art so profound and creative it must live outside. Indeed, it is intentionally designed to take up public space and to say to the everyday person who encounters it, ‘Stop. Look. Think. Feel the experience of this display, of what this represents.’ Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan , Winnipeg-based performance artists, are involved in this very kind of public art project , designed to pay tribute to the LGBTQ2+ community and, specifically, to the survivors and the victims of Th