Sonic Boom, July 2025

worry bone the sperm whale clicking inside my jaw

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2025

Honoured to have the following vispo (visual poetry), "Departure", shortlisted  and selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith (15 works selected from 80) for this year's gallery:

This 12 X 9 landscape collage features handpainted papers and a found poem culled from H. Albert Hochbaum's "To Ride the Wind."

Sonic Boom, World Collage Day 2025

My thanks to Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for selecting the following collage for inclusion in Sonic Boom's gorgeous World Collage Day eBook (18 collages were selected from 90 submissions):

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2024

Thrilled that the following vispo (visual poetry), "Depression Era", received an Honourable Mention in Sonic Boom's 2024 annual contest and was selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for this year's gallery:

Artist's Statement:

A paper collage embellished with frayed burlap and fabric symbolizing how women learned to "make do" during the Depression Era. The grains of wheat and ration ticket represent food insecurity and the lack of the most basic items after countless farmers lost their land. The staple stitching works to bring these two themes together.

Sonic Boom, World Collage Day 2024

My thanks to Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for selecting the following collage for inclusion in Sonic Boom's gorgeous World Collage Day eBook (30 collages were selected from 135 submissions):

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2023

Thrilled to have the following vispo (visual poetry) shortlisted and selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for this year's gallery:

Artist's Statement:

A word-weaving of culled Wikipedia details regarding Treaty 1 (in my home province of Manitoba) affixed to stained watercolour paper, referencing the boil-water advisories on many First Nations in Canada.

Sonic Boom, Issue 24, April 2023 (The Final Issue)

Honoured to have two works selected for this final issue:

crespuscular rays

 

Sonic Boom, Photo Essay Feature, January 2023

The Eight Muses

Artist's Statement:

This paper collage series showcases the eight creative traits featured in Adobe Create Magazine:

The Artist

"seeing beauty, creating beauty"

The Producer

"process is power"

The Dreamer

"the power of imagination unleashed"

The Adventurer

"so much inspiration, so little time"

The Innovator

"move, shake, disrupt, repeat"

The Thinker

"deep thoughts, big questions"

The Visionary

"imagining the impossible"

The Maker

"committed to your craft"

 

Sonic Boom, Issue 23, December 2022

Honoured to have the following artwork "uhtceare" (Old English for the sorrow that comes before dawn, when you lie awake in the darkness and worry) chosen for the cover of this issue:

The following two haiga were also selected for this issue:

(note: sonoluminescenc is the emission of light by various liquids when traversed by high-frequency sound or ultrasonic waves of suitable intensity - Merriam-Webster)

Sonic Boom, Issue 20, April 2021

inklings #1

 

Sonic Boom, Issue 18, August 2020

Sonic Boom, Issue 17, April 2020

Sonic Boom, Issue 12, August 2018

Sonic Boom, Issue 11, April 2018

Sonic Boom, Issue 8, April 2017

Sonic Boom, Issue 6, August 2016

Sonic Boom, Issue 3, August 2015

Sonic Boom, Issue 2, April 2015