This is Gregaro McKool coming to you from the County Fence Bi-Annual Skunkworks deep in the wilderness of Eastern Ontario and this week I’m back with more thoughts on art, why I do it, and what the hell I’m going to do with mine.
Tag: Colonialism
Fence Profiles
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How Do You Live?
Our fearless editor-in-chief, Jules Octavian, reflects on a life well-lived, the spaces in-between, and planting trees without expecting shade.
Art & Culture
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The Brownlow School
Literary editor Gregaro McKool wonders what his home town of Brownlow Ontario is for.
Travel & Tourism
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Jules Octavian Loves You
Audio Version Here Jules Octavian is hopelessly in love with you, Eastern Ontario. And when I say Jules Octavian is in love with you, what I really mean is that you should be very flattered. Jules is no ordinary gentleman. He is a gentleman and that is unique enough. He’s…
Art & Culture
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River’s Place
Audio Version Here River’s ‘studio’ is straight-up the kind of place my parents warned me about. They’d tell me that they didn’t immigrate to Canada so I could hang out at grow ops on the rez without cell service. Yet last week I parked my car beside a cornfield, said…
Art & Culture
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Gentrification
Audio Version Here. The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week….
Art & Culture
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Everyone’s Got Cholera
Audio Version Here Cornelius Krieghoff was the first artist to capture the Canadian landscape in oil paint. That’s what my Canadian Art History teacher told me in art school, anyway. She also told us that the landscape somehow informs all Canadian cultural output. My family is from Hong Kong. I…
Fence Profiles
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The Haunting of Ginnie Cook
Audio Version Here There’s much more to the roads of rural Ontario than meets the eye. What appears to be a post-war highway project may have a history dating back to the ice age and initially have more to do with cycling than the automobile. But you’re not here for…
Art & Culture
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Aliens
Audio Version Here If intelligent life capable of intergalactic space travel exists, then it seems likely they would avoid contact with us. At best they may observe us like researchers studying wolves in the arctic. Perhaps we have caught the scent, the odd glimpse, or even been put under long…