DUST & LEDGER
Everything Moves But Me
Before the first brush touched the wall, before the first ribbon of tape stretched across the surface, before the painter climbed the scaffolding and looked down upon the street, I was already here. I was the wind slipping between buildings. I was the sun warming the backs of strangers. I was the rain finding the…
The Sunflower Project: We Are Not Erasable
In 2013, in Vernon, British Columbia, a group of advocates launched The Sunflower Project. It did not begin as decoration. It began with a history Canada had struggled to speak about. From 1914 to 1920, during Canada’s first national internment operations, thousands of men, women and children were branded “enemy aliens.” A majority of those affected were…
Walls as a place of healing!
To enter the arena of a mural, is to enter a place of return, of safety, of peace and of hope that the wall will release the story and art from your hands. Sometimes in your hands the art flows freely and the wall bends to your vision. But sometimes the wall is harsh. The…
The Muralist
As the years go by and life’s paintings change, etch and fade; what is revealed is beyond beautiful. There isn’t just one story to tell. There are many. Each line a practice of cursive writing, of the lines on the walls, on the faces and in the hands that lifted a life! The colours brighter…
Legacy highway
Painted pathways A PAINTED PATHWAY CONNECTING COMMUNITIES TO A CULTURAL STORYLINE OF ART The [International] Legacy Highway movement was set in motion with a brush in hand by Vernon’s own and world renown Master Muralist Michelle Loughery. Initiated in 2006 jointly by a special and coveted partnership comprising of Stacey (her Agent & Confidant) and myself…
dust & ledger
When Removal Comes Full Circle There are stories that do not end.They wait.They sit in the dust.They sit in the walls.They sit in the hands of the next generation until someone finally says: this happened before. I was born from a town that was removed. Michel-Natal was not just a place on a map. It…
Indigenous Blue & the sunflower seed
SUnflowers Every piece of land carries a layered history—a palimpsest of movement, labour, memory, and time. Beneath the modern surfaces of roads and infrastructurelive older pathways shaped by people, animals, and water:footpaths worn through grass,wagon ruts pressed into clay,corridors followed by deer and birds,and the steady hum of water moving beneath the soil. These quiet,…
Art Route Canada: Dust & Ledger – The Art of Mining
A Wayfinder Legacy Project by Michelle Loughery Across this country runs a hidden route — a trail of art, labour, and legacy that connects coal towns, Indigenous communities, railway camps, immigrant kitchens, and youth murals painted under open skies. This is Art Route Canada: Dust & Ledger – The Art of Mining — a national storytelling movement led by…
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