Friday's, we blog.

If you saw last week’s post you will know that I have been blogging since 2006.

I studied Multimedia at UBC and learned about blogging and how it was becoming monitized from a fab instructor in a class called Beyond the Black Box. I have to admit that I took the class because I thought it was going to be a bird course. Boy was I wrong, it was one of the toughest courses over my three year degree. (I sped things up by taking courses at night).

Our professor made us research and do presentations on the movers and the shakers of the time and even noted that we would eventually be walking around with a digital ‘world’ in our pockets.

We all kinda thought they were crazy but here we are, so not so crazy afterall.

I just really think about that sometimes, the times when someone introduced a concept to me that. I thought was too far fetched to grasp and later became mainstream.

We are surrounded by a million ideas every single day, some of them even float into our own thoughts, most are external and often we just scroll by.

What are people going to look back on from this era? Other than climate change, war, inflation and political unrest what do we have that has moved us forward? The first person to say TikTok is outta here!

I’m serious, I would love to know your thoughts because this is something I consider often and other than really learning the value of human connection over the past five years I can’t really put my finger on a personal learning that has influenced me so much.

Can you?

Featured Artist with the Luupe for International Women's Day.

Can someone pinch me?

This just happened. Featured Artist with the Luupe for International Women's Day.

This image is part of a self-portrait project I did during the lockdown. I created a self-portrait a day for 150 days and during that time I decided to shave my head so I didn’t have to dye my hair anymore. This image encapsulates a moment in time that began a new chapter and I am beyond thrilled to be a featured artist among such a powerhouse group of women who work to lift each other up every day.

The blouse I am wearing is orange and navy blue, I bought it for $2 in a bin at a local thrift store. The pants I have on are polyester navy blue and pin stripped. I bought the couch during lockdown for $200 so I had a place to lay down or relax that was not my bed. I live in a bachelor's apartment and my bed is in the center of the main room. I wanted to change the vibe during the lockdown and I sold it once things opened up again and my apartment went back to being my workroom. I couldn’t move it out of the way to give myself enough room to shoot or use the floor when I was doing projects.

I hope you found a way to celebrate yourself today, remembering that you are an integral part of moving us forward and I am so grateful to be able to share a piece of my journey with you.

Sebastian, the story continues.

Sebastian is a model I have worked with three different times and the first two times we were accepted into Photo Vogue, my fingers are crossed for a hat trick.

This is the best part of what I do, seeing people’s journeys, watching them grow in their careers and sharing in that journey. I am so honoured and so damn grateful to have these connections.

Uncool Mom at home with Milo published in ROIDOX Mag.

Shot at home with her very own wardrobe Lily and I made some magic and got it published in ROIDOX Mag. We featured her brand new kitty Milo who I pulled a few feet of string from as he was playing around our feet during the shoot.

My stickers made it to Europe!

A wonderful fan took a stack of my stickers to Europe on her vacation and put them everywhere.

Then they took photos, printed them and gave them to me. HOW COOL IS THAT?!

Thank you Marilyn, you are one of a kind.

Mural self promo video.

So I have been working on going big with my drawings for the past few years. I wanted to wrap up all of that work in one video, so I did.

I would love to know what you think. It took me a minute to collect all of the footage and again more minutes to cut it together.

It has been a wild ride and I am honestly grateful for the pause COVID gave me because that pause gave me a re-set that I needed and it gave me the opportunity to realize that I can go big with my work and it gave me a whole new community too.