Tag Archives: conceptual drawing

Wind-Drawings at the DMZ

January 14, 2026 – 2:09 pm

In the summer of 2025, I made my third trip to the Korean DMZ. On the two previous trips I saw a number of Korean War battles sites and came to appreciate just how brutal the war was. I often cite the Battle of White Horse Hill (1952) in which the South Korean and US…

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Wind-drawing Machine

January 13, 2026 – 5:56 pm

The intention of the Wind-Drawings is to make a visual record Climate Change in Ottawa, and to do so in a tangible and affecting manner. In Ottawa in 2024 temperature records were broken on several days. On those days I deployed my wind-drawing machines at my downtown Ottawa residence and was able to direct the…

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Norwegian Wood Drawings, 2012

November 7, 2012 – 4:28 pm

The Norwegian Wood drawings will be exhibited at the Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa in April 2013. The vinyl record album is a remarkably unevolved technology. Edison’s first sound recording in 1877 was created by drawing a needle across the surface of a rotating wax cylinder. By focusing the sound waves upon the needle, the…

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Clock Drawings, 2009-2011

September 18, 2011 – 4:17 pm

I collect old wind-up alarm clocks, and in 2009 I began to make drawings using the energy found on the clock springs. The first drawing in the series was created using a 1934 Westclox Big Ben Chime Alarm, which I purchased at a yard sale at an old farmhouse west of Kingston, Ontario. The clock…

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Recent Drawings by George Gershwin, 2011

September 18, 2011 – 3:52 pm

The player pianos in old western movies were hardy and inelegant. Shown scrolling punched paper rolls through their mechanisms, they automatically plunked out popular melodies for the saloon patrons. By the early 1900s however, player pianos had evolved into quite sophisticated instruments. The reproducing piano played rolls that recorded,  not simply the sequence of notes…

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