by Sherveen Ashtari Sometimes you come across a certain type of creativity that really makes you pause and wonder: how did he/she think of that? How did he do it? That’s not what my family or friends had in mind when they saw my first (and last) snow [...]
Jack Shadbolt: Vancouver, War, and Scavenger Dogs
by Sherveen Ashtari When months ago I visited the Shadbolt Art Centre for the first time— an Art facility nestled in the scenic Deer Lake Park in Burnaby— I had no idea that the centre was named after two very influential Burnaby artists and art lovers: Jack Shadbolt [...]
René Magritte
by Sherveen Ashtari Everything is more memorable when it’s connected to a song or a piece of music. A distant dwindling emotion is instantly heightened, an old love we’d done our best to mentally burn to ashes and scatter into the abyss of oblivion is immediately resurrected, a [...]
Johann Heinrich Füssli
by Sherveen Ashtari It doesn’t take much to scare me; watching people on rollercoaster rides, ghost-stories, Ouija boards, and those awful and cruel surviving-in-the wild type shows where people eat anything, and I mean anything to keep their tummies from chewing on themselves. Even a picture of a [...]
Brian Froud: Evil Creatures with Mischievous Grins
by Sherveen Ashtari I’ve never been much of a movie person. I’ve unfortunately never been able to tame my restlessness, sit still and sail through an entire movie without fidgeting and finding excuses to get up and do something else. In fact, if I was asked to count the [...]
Normandy
Walk on Spanish Banks
The Great Eagle
Collaboration II