School Pic 2
Some more big drawings from pictures that I found around town, I think this one was with a big bunch of photos in a big blue community recycling bin. These drawings are 30 inches wide and 45 inches tall. Mixed media, charcoal, graphite, compressed chalk, oil pastels, coloured pencils and more
It is now probably another 10 years with no playing with my Lego. The fireplaces are still on my mind as something that I always wanted to get back to and explore more fully. Now I have a huge windfall of random Lego that has blown down right in front of me. All of this material is new to me with no baggage of childhood building habits or meanings imbued. Just pure raw material.
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From a photo of a member of the Royal Purple Auxiliary of the Elks in 1960. At least that is what it has written on the back. I’m not sure where. My partner says these drawings from found photos have a haunting quality. Perhaps they are reflecting the “lost in the world” nature of how I have come across these found pictures.
Sometime while introducing my old Lego to Lilla I started building small fireplaces, mainly from some pieces from and old 80’s castle set. I don’t know why, but these fireplaces just seemed like a jump to adult building from my old childhood improvisations. I had not done any random building for 20 years probably. It felt like I had leaped from kid to grown up without any intervening steps. These fireplaces were just an obvious result of life experience I had accumulated. Even if I had been still building consistently over the years this is where I would be, building little mini fireplaces.
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Over the years it has become apparent that we each have a different philosophy of Lego collecting. Lilla employs a get it, build it and shelve it type of Lego-ing. While I appreciate the sets as intended and will build them, I soon take them back apart and just put all of it in the communal Lego collection. I will then take what I have learned from the set building and go ahead a make my own constructions
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Lilla and I both grew up on Lego and we each love it. I still have my childhood sets and when Lilla got old enough I brought it all out and we really enjoyed getting into reviving my old toy with them. Kids are a great excuse to relive your childhood joys.
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Over the next couple of days we sorted them out, looking for minifigure parts, sorting anything that looked special or abundant to try to get a handle on what we had. I found little boxes and plastic containers to keep things in and put it all in a couple of bigger bins down in the basement.
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In late 2024 I found a whole bunch of plastic building blocks in the garbage. I was walking by a big red dumpster near some low income housing, condos. I saw a few things on top, mainly a curtain rod in a package that appeared to look new and unopened. The bin was nearly full, so I grabbed the rod and then poked around a bit. In a cardboard box, open, no flaps, I saw four small brown boxes with a white label on one side. It said “Brick Play Box”. The boxes, 8x8x5 inches looked new, unweathered and unopened. So I took out my always with me multi tool knife and opened one. It looked full with “Lego” type blocks. I thought cool some fake lego for institutions or something I will grab those. So I carried them home. With my child Lilla, we started to have a closer look. When we opened them we discovered a completely random assortment of bricks that, to my surprise, turned out to be real Lego, 4 boxes.
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A new project I have been working on since the beginning of 2025. I will be posting one part of the story every Friday leading up to this work being shown in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina in January 2027.
These pictures I have been posting are drawn from photographs that I have found. Most were found on the ground, in the gutter, on the streets of Regina. A few were orphaned and not quite thrown away but in old unwanted frames, lost and found drawers, recycling bins and places like this. So, I ask myself, who owns these images now? What can or cannot be done with them? Some of them are decades old, the people in them long gone. Does that matter? What are the ethical and moral codes in play here? I am a white, middle class, male person. Basically I mean that I am coming at this from a position of privilege and power. What restrictions and responsibilities are on me with regard to how I can use these discarded or lost images?
