I mull this over in the wake of five shootings. Four of them just blocks from our Space. The fifth not much further. Alberta Avenue drags along a history of injustice. Prostitution. Drugs. Vandalism. At times, violence. I do not feel unsafe. But I do feel compelled to respond.
I wonder, sometimes, if art is the right response. There is poverty of the body and the spirit. There is hunger of every sort. I believe in a God who satisfies hunger and need. Is art, then, a waste of my energy? Is there not some more important business to be about?
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What if there is some other explanation to our lack of justice? Our inaction? Our fall-short love and too-dim light?
I sat in St.Faith’s Anglican and listened to Reverend Travis Enright tell about a homeless man. A man who feels ousted by people of faith. Feels unloved. I thought about the people I work with or rather, work near at Hope Mission. I thought about our reading from the book of James, telling us to show no favouritism to the rich. Telling us there is no faith in a faith without works.
Hypocrisy is an easy label.
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If your time is not divided between driving out for one last long weekend hurrah and checking out all of the Star Wars merchandise released today, you may just be looking for some good stuff to do right here in Edmonton. If so, look no further. Five Finger Friday is back!
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Last week, we made sure your website was all connected with your payment processor. That means you can accept money from people online, without worrying about taking credit card numbers yourself. That’s good.
Today, we’ll start setting up shop. We’re going to work with Karla Adolphe’s new website as our real-life example.
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In a fast and full world, Riley Tenove is offering us space and breath. This is why we want to share Riley Tenove’s Forgotten Places with you in The Bleeding Heart Art Space.
I want us to ask what happens when we enchant the quotidian vacancies of life with wonder. What happens when we stop looking for moments and spaces that demand our attention, and begin to offer it freely to all moments and spaces? Especially those places that will not beg our attention.
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I am thinking about how relationships work. How time spent together plus proximity equals intimacy.
I am thinking about friends, just back in town. How easy it is to slide back into a groove. How time apart presses pause, except for the milestones. This person had a baby. That person moved. This job now. That death. I am thinking about how little the milestones matter when it comes to intimacy. How important the details are.
I am wondering whether the same rules apply to my relationship with God.
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I’m asking myself how faith affects my life. My art. The Bleeding Heart project. I’m asking myself if faith still matters, and if so, how.
It would all be easier if it did not. At least it feels that way at times. If the Bleeding Heart were a project about "art, hope and love” rather than “art, faith, hope and love”, so many conversations would get less awkward. I feel, at least, like different doors might open. After all, we’re talking about a very old and rather unpopular Christian faith in this case.
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The first step to making a living as an artist is pretty simple. People need to be able to pay you. Today, we’re going to continue adding e-commerce to an artist website with one very simple step–the Patron Button.
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A week in pictures, and not too many words.
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Re-entry used to be the worst.
At home, you’ll be going to bed too late and waking up too early to work again too soon, seeing as how you squeezed every last moment of sweetness out of this vacation.
This used to be my story. I used to feel a hollow terror in my chest as I headed backward to home. But not lately. Not this time.
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