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Xoloitzcuintle

According to Aztec legend, the Xoloitzcuintle came about when the god of death, Xolotl, created a dog from the Bone of Life. Xolotl gave...

Migration

In 1992, during the Gulf War, my parents applied for Canadian immigratioin; we were living in Dubai, where I was born. Later that year we...

Flamingoes and peachzz

As part of the Hands off the Wall Festival in Vienna, we put a couple of pieces up in the Wien Museum for the epic Take Over street art...

Ode to 2018

It’s time for that poem, And I can gladly say: The year that began Didn’t end the same way! You see: I drew a bird in a cape, Feathers...

ode to 2017

I didn't write the poem There weren't any words I said it all this year With tumultuous birds They flapped and they flew They shrunk...

the truth about art

My Grandparents were social workers. My Grandfather had been orphaned by the time he was a teenager having lost his parents to a...

the birds under the bridge

This bird obsession is well and truly underway. I'm not entirely sure where it started but there's something beautiful and tragic about...

Straya

I could write about this trip for days. But I'll keep it (fairly) short and focus on the piece. I was really lucky, with the support of...

you and I, displaced, Amman 2017

This was my 2nd time in Amman. 2 years ago I painted a wall in Webdeh and fell in love with the colour and texture of the walls and the...

black balloons (ode to 2016)

Fluttering somewhere around and between Emotional outbursts and almost serene This year saw us holding our breaths for too long Exhaling...

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