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Fur-lined Cubic Pinky Ring
I originally enrolled in Fine Crafts with the intention of becoming a jeweler and cutler. As I became more attracted to media arts, and realized I wasn’t up for a career working craft shows and making production work, my jewelry became less practical and more conceptual.
This 1979 fur-lined cubic pinky ring was inspired by Meret Oppenheim’s 1936 “Object”.
Stirling silver, cut and polished quartz crystal and rabbit fur. In the collection of the artist’s wife.
Navoo Dada/Navoo Davoo Posters
From 1978 to 80 I was the Xerox monitor at Algonquin College, and I started to experiment with scanning and rescanning drawings and photos. I postered the school and the downtown streets of Ottawa.
This became a campaign involving collaborators Adly Gawad, Bruce Hefler, and Dan Tippins under the names Navoo Davoo/Navoo Dada. The first poster is a drawing from superimposed photos, Xeroxed and stenciled. I was impressed by the fuss that arose when I plastered the school and surrounding area. From there we started making posters that were under the group name, IDed only by our SIN numbers (which I have distorted, because that really was a bad idea).
