Recently, my friends Nicki and Rogie came to me with a request: “Ali, we need a map of our farm so visitors can find their way around.” My friends are hosting workshops on equine education and will be moving from point to point around the property teaching things like pasture management, nutrition, hoof care and […]
Switching gears
Originally published in July 2015 in Blog
How to deal with mean girls
Originally published in November 2014 in Blog
I wasn’t a mean girl in school. That automatically made me a target. I didn’t solve this by auditioning to join the girls on their power trips. Rather, I tried to exist in the world despite them. My refuge was drawing. Trays of rainbow markers thrilled and distracted me most of the time. But sometimes the girls’ […]
Kidd Stuff
Originally published in November 2014 in Blog
The Wall
Originally published in May 2014 in Blog, Uncategorized
Talent crush
Originally published in March 2014 in Blog
Appearing on the same Contributors’ Page as Wendy MacNaughton feels like an arrival. Seriously. This clip is from a forthcoming issue of The Block, a cool new mag that focuses on the workspaces of Canada’s brainiest tech and design innovators. Details to follow next week. Do you guys know about MacNaughton? I’ve culled together some […]
Hot off the press
Originally published in August 2012 in Blog
The lines in this drawing are actually clumps of pulled wool caught in fishing line. Drawing stares Despite itself, the computer age has given rise to a more intense engagement with objects. Miles Davis on vinyl, homemade scrapbooks assembled with a medieval attention to detail, and libraries of real books stacked in such unexpected places as abandoned phone booths […]
