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Diptych #72
“You Can Plaster Over It, but You Can’t Hide It”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
The “C” from the old “Bow Mac” sign peering from behind the new “S” of the “Toys ‘R Us” sign, and the elevator next to them taking [me] down to street level W Broadway. Vancouver, Canada. (May 2012)
#streetphoto
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Diptych #71
“I Always Love It When We Have Family Over for the Holidays”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A shipwrecked propeller in a sand dune and the view off a jetty light house (via the “angle formed by the parting of [my] two legs”), on the North Jetty of Iona Beach Regional Park, on Sea Island, Richmond, Canada.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #70
“The [Grass/Sky/Life] Is Always [Greener/Brighter/Better] on the Other Side (of Burrard Inlet)”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
The dry leaves of a non-indigenous tree planted off Keith Avenue and the branches of an acacia tree in Victoria Park, off Lonsdale Avenue, in North Vancouver, Canada.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #69
“One Last Puff (of Cheap Debt)”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
Protesters at the “420 Day” event on W Georgia Street and Howe, at the plaza at the back of Vancouver Art Gallery, and a local Coast Capital Credit Union advertisement, in Vancouver, Canada. (April 2012)
#streetphoto
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Diptych #68
“On Track to That Brighter Future”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A quaint railway crossing on Bridge Road in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw First Nation X̱wemelch’stn community off the [new] mouth of the Capilano River, and a sunken plaza on West Georgia Street at Seymour Street, in downtown Vancouver, Canada, looking a little neglected.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #67
“Mysterious Things You Find on Walks You Hoped to Be Solitary”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A Republic of Korea export king oyster mushroom in a supermarket, and a glacier-smoothed boulder (so erratic!) in a forest in North Vancouver, Canada.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #66
“I’m So Incensed with All of This Socialist Crap…!!!”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
Boxes of Nag Champa incense and a Gallery Gachet poster of a Rodney DeCroo concert, in window shops in Vancouver, Canada.
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Diptych #65
“Cooking Pot of Cultures”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
Shadow self-portrait with a slide show exhibit the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, and a pot of simmering festive Christmas sauerkraut kapustnica stew at a home in North Vancouver, Canada.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #64
“Give a Finger, and They’ll Take the Whole 80% Off”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
Sales signage on Robson Street off Jervis during the mini recession of 2011-12, Vancouver, Canada. (2012)
#streetphoto
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Diptych #63
“Culture Now 70% Off!”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
Seasonal decorations at the T&T Supermarket, in Richmond, BC, and sale signage on Robson Street during the mini recession of 2011/12, in Vancouver, Canada. (2012)
#streetphoto
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Diptych #62
“Beefcakes (Fantasies)”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A tropical vacation advert, and a fast food joint advert, both on West Broadway, in Vancouver, Canada. (Early 2012)
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Diptych #61
“Parallels”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A concrete office building stairway, and a high definition TV colour bars – parallel worlds in mid-December 2011, in Vancouver, Canada. (2011)
#streetphoto
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(Tr)iptych #60
“Apparels”
From my Lost in #VanRELand, ’04 – ’18 series.
A giant plastic water bottle, another American Apparel advert, and an online video I came across in mid-December, 2011, in Vancouver, Canada. (2011)
#streetphoto
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Diptych #59
“Are you Mimicking Me…?”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Adverts (at the same bus shelter, but a day apart) for American Apparel on Robson Street at Bute, in mid-December 2011, in Vancouver, BC. (2011)
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Diptych #58
“Are There Any Other Options…?”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
An advert for an import beer, and an advert for a boutique rental apartment complex, off Robson Street, Vancouver, BC. (2011)
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Diptych #57
“Wilted Greens”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Inside the trunk of a passanger car in West Vancouver, and the side of a delivery truck in the downtown Business District of Vancouver, BC.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #56
“So Board”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
The boarded up Pacific Palisades Hotel on Robson Street during its conversion to a boutique rental apartment building, and a storefront across the street during the mini recession of 2011, Vancouver BC.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #55
“One Thing Leads to Another”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
The signs are clear.
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Diptych #54
“Expand Your Horizons”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Expansion joints hinting at mysterious worlds below the surface in the north end of the downtown Business District, and a hacked DYI bike hinting at an east side hipster mysteriously lost on Robson Street, in Vancouver BC.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #53
“Location, Location, Location!“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Construction site for a luxury oceanfront mansion on Bellevue Avenue in West Vancouver, and public art user interaction at Garry Point Park in Richmond, BC.
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Diptych #52
“Lock in That Good Feeling“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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Diptych #51
“Traditions [Images d’Épinal] II“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
An anatomical chart of the female reproductive system in a doctor’s office in Vancouver, and a bag of imported snack food in a grocery store in North Vancouver.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #48
“Things You Sometimes Need That Never Seem to Be Around“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
A low-quality pen missing from its low-quality holder at a local financial institution, and a slice of imported dried porcini mushroom moments before being prepared for cooking in a traditional festive Christmas sour cabbage kapustnica soup, in North Vancouver, BC.
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Diptych #47
“Patterns of Hospitality“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
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Diptych #46
“Warning! Danger! Don’t Overactivate!”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
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Diptych #45
“Terminal (City) Careers I”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Swipe right for a great time. 🙂
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Diptych #44
“Housing the Flock”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
The late Lynnwood Inn on Barrow St at Mountain Hwy in North Vancouver, and the Plastic Animal Hotel in a doctor’s office somewhere in Vancouver BC.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #43
“Familiar Afternoons”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Post-Olympic public art (aka “The Frigid Phallus”) on West Georgia St at Granville, and Sunday brunch with friends somewhere on West Broadway, Vancouver BC.
#streetphoto
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Diptych #42
“Out for a Stroll”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
In a magical unirotor flying machine high above First Narrows at Lions Gate Bridge, and over a cheap foldable stroller on West Broadway near Cambie Street, Vancouver, BC. (Summer 2010)
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Diptych #41
“Two Weeks on the Lips, a Lifetime on the Hips”
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Remnants of Canada Line construction on Robson and Granville Street, and remnants of Olympic “cultural requirements” on Quebec St off Main Street, in Vancouver, BC. (May 2010)
#streetphoto
Diptych #40
“Sell the Drizzle, Not the Rain“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
A rental building swimming pool in the off-season, and Craigslist sale product photo shoot staging, in Cambie Village, Vancouver, BC.
#streetphoto
Diptych #39
“I HEART Interfacing“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
Vintage Mercedes Benz army ambulance by a Rent-A-Fence in Olympic Village, and analog-digital interfaces at home in #NorthVan.
#streetphoto
Diptych #37
“Open It [Up] Grandly“
From my Lost in #VanRE Land, ’04 – ’18 series.
From the grand opening of the Canada Line urban-suburban metro (on a balmy August 17, 2009): waiting for Mayor Gregor to speak at the Broadway City Hall station and watering the lawn off W 64th Ave, at Cambie Street, Vancouver. BC.
#streetphoto
* amateur interdisciplinary West Coast artist-satirist 