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Monthly Archive November, 2007

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KEVIN
My dream’s always been to have a nice big house and take care of my mom.
She’s always taken care of me, so I’d like to be able to take care of her.
(I smile when I think of her, but I can’t tell you that). She’s the only parent
I really ever had.
I’m 22. I was born [...]

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Cathy
I was always creative. I had peer groups. I found that mentally I was always five years
behind my physical age. It was like I lived in a windstorm. Because of mental illness,
I guess. And issues with my family life. Mental hospitals are not much fun, you know?
I’m trying to hold things together.
I felt like I [...]

USER

The Ottawa Citizen ran an editorial comment on my show USER.

I’ve been sort of blown away by the response so far to the images in the show.
I must admit to being a little bit worried about how the people in the photos
would react to seeing themselves on a gallery wall. They’d all seen the [...]

PRESS

Got some press about my show.
Did an interview on CBC. You can listen to it here.
Here, as well, is an e-mail I got from the CBC producer who pre-interviewed me:
Heya Tony,
Looking forward to seeing and hearing you this afternoon. However, after our
conversation I was quite concerned about the issue of swearing. I”m a hearty
swearer [...]