I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The first two times I posted this essay about why I am a proud Canadian, and a proud Albertan, so many people tried to read it all at once that it crashed the @albertaviews.bsky.social website! But in light of recent news, I felt compelled to post it again. #Alberta #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #Canada

I contain mountainous volumes of unfathomable existential anxiety & also whimsy

After all the heartbreak and horror of the world this week - a reminder of why Canada, and the idea of Canada, really matters. We aren’t trying to be great again - just trying to make a better country, every day. Sending this out with love and hope. #Canada #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #Alberta #refugees

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

Capy New Year you magnificent bastards xxx

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar is my current stitching WiP. I'm working on it in the waiting room for the ferry 🎄🎁🤶

#ArtAdventCalendar No24 Merry Christmas to everyone / Frohe Weihnachten Euch allen. 🎄❤️ Anbei mein diesjähriges Weihnachtsmotiv. Die Kunstaktion hier war wieder eine Freude. Danke all alle! Erneut mit Finger auf Smartphone gezeichnet, kein AI.

#nature #artadventcalendar The hush of the trees 💚🧡🩷

For my final #artAdventCalendar post, one of my favourite pieces. The Pillars 20x30 Oil on canvas 2024

It's Christmas Eve, the final day of the lovely #ArtAdventCalendar ! I'm finishing off my creative sharing with a combo of two different projects, pottery dala horses on a shawl I knit :)

I am absolutely that person who takes photos of flowers fully intending to use them later to work on drawing flowers and then never actually sits down to draw them. My camera roll has them scattered all throughout #ArtAdventCalendar Day 23

Playing around with the sky in another pen and watercolor. #ArtAdventCalendar

Day 24 Copper inclusions and kiln carving using ceramic fibre and papers in this under the sea fusing experiment. Bubbles courtesy of the kiln firing process add to the sparkle! #ArtAdventCalendar #StainedGlass #FusedGlass

Day 24 #ArtAdventCalendar • Here is my largest #SciArt #embroidery piece to date, the wandering ghost (2024) which illustrates the vagus nerve and my experiences with polyvagal theory. You can read more about this piece here: liapas.com/2024/10/15/t...

For #artAdventCalendar day 21 evening, a not odd but old piece. Ice Falls 22×28 56×71cm Oil on Canvas 1992

Day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #SciArt #embroidery is an image of mitosis in a reproductive cell with the various parts done on various stitches: winter night mitosis sampler (2024). I've made 4 seasonal colour combinations of this piece and am currently writing a pattern for it.

Embracing my inner crazy! It's Monday and Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar "MISSILE-TOAD" 🤭 He's here to blast into your holiday season. The countdown has begun! #torilart #holidayseason #mistletoe #toad #holidayfun #painting #acrylic #art

Just 3 posting days left for #ArtAdventCalendar 2025! Just Calm 22 x48 56x122cm Oil on Canvas 2021 Commission

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery depicts the neurological fatigue of post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of #MECFS: neuraesthenia (2017).

For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar A Little Night Magic 32 x16 81x40cm Oil on Canvas 2021

#ArtAdventCalendar 2025 day 21 Minninglow Beeches, Winter Hopefully appropriate for #solstice too - bring on the light! ☀️ More information on this work can be found here https://cognissart.co.uk/minninglow-beeches-winter/ @textileart @fiberarts #Art […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Day 21 Art Advent Calendar Relic Mixed media altered altoid tin lid, designed to look like an old fashioned circus train car with a paper doll moon girl. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #handmade

Turn toward the light. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 #photography #solstice #light

The Colorful Path 🧡💜💛 #ArtAdventCalendar day 21 #watercolor A visit to southern Oregon inspired my watercolor painting. Loved the vibrant fields of flowers. #art #nature #landscape #flowers #Oregon #Stunday 🎨 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com

This young bachelor stallion in the Onaqui herd is our Black Stallion Advent today. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #ArtAdventCalendar

December 20 #ArtAdventCalendar now that we’re about to hit winter solstice, I’m celebrating the Flowering Season to come! Enjoy this rose & bee. #art #photography #flower #rose #bee

#ArtAdventCalendar “Pain into Beauty” Quilted fiber art, deconstructed and reconstructed. 2024 #beauty #fiberart #quiltsky #artquilt

For Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar Chinook Sunset 36×48 91x122cm Oil on Canvas 2022

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 Night of the Lepus #linocut ##blockprint #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink

‘Celebration’ 11x14 - Thread and Paint #ArtAdventCalendar Day20 #FiberArt #NeuroArt Original design lifted from the pages of my coloring book, hand embroidered on canvas and then painted with acrylics www.laurabundesen.com

Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar "To Catch A Moonbeam" From the Alchemy of Nightfall Series. Analog & Digital #Collage. NO artificial intelligence AI used in the creation of this collage Stenciled images, vintage image and paper, photos, acrylic paint @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

Day 20 A moment of calm contemplating my leaded stained glass homage to Mondrian. Built to fill in a 1970s serving hatch. #ArtAdventCalendar #StainedGlass #Mondrian

Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery, paresthesia (face) (2016), looks abstract at first glance, but is a visualization of the tingling I felt on my face at the time.

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar ☃️ I sculpted this large humpback whale last year, and it found a new home through Bsky! Made from coarse paper mache which I really love sculpting with due to the organic surface texture it gives you. Painted with acrylics.

Another nature carol pun for #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡

What's a photographer to do with something so ghastly as Times Square at night? Dazzling visual garbage in every direction and the ever present threat of death beneath the wheels of a flying taxi. I quickly took some pictures and left. #NewYork (2013) for #ArtAdventCalendar day19

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 - I'm just here to let you know there's such a thing as white sunflowers. Definitely a different vibe than the traditional yellow, but I love it all the same 😍 #FlowerFriday #FloralFriday #FloralPhotography #MacroPhotography #Bloomscrolling #CanadianPhotographer

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 19 M74: The Phantom 36x36 91x91 Oil on canvas Based on the JWST image of M74, The Phantom Galaxy

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 ‘HOPE’ thread and sequins on canvas - handstitched and framed circa 2020 #FiberArt #HandEmbroidered

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 2020. A lot of us suddenly had extra solitary time on our hands, much of which I used figuring out where I wanted to go next with my art. Here's an experimental pixel piece from then. 🪶 #art #parrotSky

my brain 2014 8x10 acrylic on canvas [ day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar ]

Long and very unpleasant day of medical stuff, so here I am late again to the #ArtAdventCalendar Ravens are one of my favorite subjects. They are delightful and engaging birds. #art #painting #artsky

#ArtAdventCalendar 18: These house numbers were a collaboration with my mom, who created the tile by throwing a cylinder, then cutting and stretching it. I carved and underglazed the numbers and Glasgow-style (MacDonald-Mackintosh) rose; mom finished with clear glaze and did all the firings. 2013.

Day 17 Art Advent Calendar Inktober drawing of a poppy flower in India ink #art #ArtAdventCalendar #ink #drawing

It's a bitterly cold and snowy morning, so I'm bringing out an iris from the heat of summertime for today's #ArtAdventCalendar