A collection of hand-spun wool, silk, hemp, linen, cotton, twine, metal, raw and refined. Without patterns.

“In Dreamscapes writer and filmmaker Kate McBride offers to the public fragments of dreams in a play of illusionistic images suspended between ambiguous revelation and poetic cryptography.”  Stefano Massi, excerpt from Fragments of Dreams, a review of the exhibition.

Elfriede Bedriska mandl. I never stop tells the story of an heroine. Described by the writer Kate McBride, it is the biography of one of the few ones who survived to the Shoah when it was a paradox also just supposing the possibility. Bedriska, who was born in Brno (Czech Republic), really never stopped. Sister of many siblings, so loved by her parents, she will be mother of herself and her sons. They will be given birth, though, in USA, where the woman moves after a short break in Paris.

A small book of Polaroid images accompanied by short stories.
Excerpt from portman place . . .
“The telephone operator who answered the toll free enquiry mentioned that she had a friend who had a friend with a place in Marlybone that just might have a room over the upcoming busy weekend.“

The book invites us to journey as armchair travelers through eighty-four poems and more than two-hundred Polaroids. The milkiness, the painterly, almost ethereal look of the images and the poetic record of a place and time create what author Kate McBride describes as dreamscapes. Continue reading →

Two fluffy cats live under a bridge in the center of Florence. Curious and kind, Arnie and Soot navigate the city through secret underground passages. Gourmet taste and an insatiable curiosity lead these library lovers to discover famous and unkonwn places from a cat’s point of view. Where does their “hole with a view” under the Ponte alle Grazie lead to? What adventures await them?

The Cornell Concordances (excerpt from Cornell University Press “NEW BOOKS” July 1988 – January 1989) January, 1989, 984 pages, 6 1/8″ x 9 1/4″, LC 88-47749, ISBN 0-8014-2239-6 cloth. Based on e.e. cummings, Complete Poems: 1913 – 1962, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1968, this computer-based concordance is unlike any other concordance ever made.

Advertising agency for the Vancouver Stock Exchange for four years in the late 1990s/early 2000s into the period of the formation of the Canadian Exchange, CDNX. Under President Michael Johnson, the marketing program included expansion in South America and Asia and the recognition of the 100th anniversary of the exchange.  Continue reading →

Seduced by the words Côte d’Azur the traveler journeys to a place of hot skies on sunbaked skin, warm hues of gold, pink light and dreamy days that turn to gentle nights, where the rhythm of the sea fashions the palette of everyday life. The name Façonnable reflects the rich and colorful life of the Côte d’Azur through the playful combination of the French “façonner” meaning “to create” and the English “fashionable.

Beautiful images and interesting stories form the backdrop for a leisurely journey through places along the Mediterranean. The book series follows the locations of the documentary travel series titled “On The Backroads.” Continue reading →