Well, winter’s halfway over. I’ve been work­ing on some new stuff, which I will post on soon. In the mean­time, I’m happy to announce that I’ve got some greet­ing cards and prints (in a snazzy pack­ag­ing I designed!) on sale at the Con­cor­dia Co-op Book­store, a local  “non-profit co-op book­store that is directly con­trolled by its user, worker and sup­port members.”

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For Expozine 2011, I ven­tured out into putting together a lit­tle ‘zine of my own — and am now mak­ing it avail­able for view­ing online via Issuu.

The title “Know Hope” comes from a par­tic­u­lar spec­i­men of spray-painted graf­fiti that I passed by every­day in Mon­treal, and it now has become my motto. Cob­bling together some of my own writ­ing along­side quotes from some of my favourite writ­ers and thinkers, I’ve illus­trated (most of) it with my illus­tra­tions and dig­i­tal col­lages, with the theme being “evolution.”

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Last month I put up a small exhibit of my art­work at La Co-op Mai­son Verte, Canada’s first envi­ron­men­tal sol­i­dar­ity co-op and an icon in my neigh­bour­hood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Thank you all for the pos­i­tive response!

Next up: some of my art will be in the “Small Works Exhi­bi­tion” at Fleur­bain, a gallery in down­town Mon­tréal that also dou­bles as a herbal dis­pen­sary, offer­ing work­shops on DIY beauty, paint­ing, etc. — a won­der­ful con­cept for the city. There will be a vernissage/opening on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 10. If you’re in the area, please drop by!

Check out the Face­book event here — hope to see you there.

So I finally took the plunge and opened a shop over at Etsy. If you’re inter­ested, my art­work is now avail­able as prints, posters and cards (sin­gles or packs of 6).

As you’ve seen with my architecturally-themed illus­tra­tions, my focus is on where “Archi­tec­ture Meets Art.” I also wel­come com­mis­sions for fan­tas­ti­cal draw­ings of that spe­cial place you have in mind. Send me a mes­sage via onecol­lec­tivepsy­che [at] gmail [dot] com, along with a brief descrip­tion of why this par­tic­u­lar spot is so unique to you, as well as any pho­tos or videos you may have, and I will send you an esti­mate for price and time required to com­plete your cus­tom project.

Thanks for visiting!

Work­ing on a cou­ple of new pieces, here are some process photos.

From tree­houses to micro-houses, we’re well aware of the sim­ple plea­sures of liv­ing on a smaller eco­log­i­cal foot­print — espe­cially out in beau­ti­ful syl­van sur­round­ings likeLe Vent des Forêts in the Meuse region of France. In cre­at­ing idyl­lic dwellings for a 5,000 hectare for­est over­seen by six vil­lages, which hosts artists for sum­mer res­i­den­cies as well as show­cas­ing con­tem­po­rary art along a 45-kilometer foot­path through the woods, French designer Matali Cras­set designed what she calls “Mai­son Sylvestres” or “feral houses” — com­pact, self-containing and light­weight houses that can be moved around with­out dis­turb­ing the forest.

Read the rest on Tree­Hug­ger.

It’s every parent’s night­mare: ear­lier last week, an 8-year-old boy went miss­ing after tak­ing a wrong turn on his first walk home alone from day camp in a Brook­lyn neigh­bor­hood. A mere seven blocks, with his mother wait­ing halfway — but he never made it. A mas­sive two-day search ended in the heart-wrenching and shock­ing dis­cov­ery of Leiby Kletzky’s dis­mem­bered body in a neigh­bor­hood man’s apart­ment — sev­eral blocks away in the same neigh­bor­hood. The deci­sive break in this dis­turb­ing case came from secu­rity cam­era footage which caught the final move­ments of Leiby, which led to the even­tual iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and cap­ture of his killer.

In the wake of the mur­der, local politi­cians now want to give New York City busi­nesses tax breaks to encour­age them to install more sur­veil­lance cam­eras, osten­si­bly under leg­is­la­tion called “Leiby’s Ini­tia­tive.”

But will this actu­ally pre­vent future kid­nap­pings? Taken at face value, this mea­sure might seem to make sense, espe­cially in our society’s cul­ture of fear, obses­sion with ‘safety’ and litigation.

Read the rest on Parenta­bles.