🐒🧦🎄 My handmade, hand-sewn sock monkeys and “🇳🇴 Resistance Sock Nisses” will be joining me at the Swedish Christmas Fair 2026! 🇸🇪 Come meet my quirky handmade characters, find a unique Christmas gift, and support an important personal creative project along the way! November 21–22, 2026 11 AM – 4 PM Scandinavian Community Centre 6540 Thomas Street,…
Tag: Norway
Sacrifice: a story in three panels
A story in three panels: contemplative snippets of rough sketches based on one of my father’s recollection from growing up during World War II in Norway. This particular memory was one he returned to again and again. I’m struck by how the shadow of those wartime experiences lingered long after the war itself had ended….
Listening Across Time: Portrait Studies for Occupation: The Long Shadow
As I sink deeper into the delicious research and development phase of my next large-scale non-fiction graphic novel, Occupation: The Long Shadow, I find myself using again quick portrait studies. These sketches are more than exercises in likeness. They become conversations with the dead, a way of listening across time. Recently, I completed studies of…
Dealing with bullies, 1937 Norwegian style. My father recounts. #vintage #photography
I’m writing a book with Dad, about how he uses art to find purpose and meaning after his stroke. I’ve pulled out old photographs and albums for him to peruse and the stories coming out are remarkable. — I found Dad’s baby album. Wow. One recurring story that Dad has to tell me every time…