Last Legs

Forest Photo shoot

East Van Hot Pot

I was invited to a hot pot dinner by my friend, Ken, a few weeks ago and it was one of the best nights I've had in a long time. It happened at his art studio, complete with ghetto orange scissors to chop the garlic. I want to hot pot again soon. Who's up for it?

CARDED! Photographs by Jackie Dives

Outtakes of Self Portraits with Blanket

Self Portraits about Loss

I made this blanket for Christmas for someone but wasn't able to give it to them.

Handmade Christmas Ornaments

I was inspired by a tutorial that I saw on Christopher & Tia to make Christmas wreath ornaments from yarn. I looked everywhere to find the styrofoam wreaths, though, and could not locate them anywhere. So I got creative with pipecleaner to make it work... and it did!

A couple of my closest buds will be getting these as gifts this year!

Christmas Card Photography

I have these two insane friends, Erin and Ben, who are somewhat obsessed with cheezy 80's nostalgia. They asked me to come over and take their portrait for a low-fi Sears inspired Christmas card. This is what happened:

Erin edited them with some 80's cheer, resulting in this:

Self Portraits | Testing New Camera Remote

Growing Chefs - From Farms to Forks

I had the opportunity this past weekend to photograph the From Farms to Forks fundraiser event for Growing Chefs, a non profit organization in Vancouver that facilitates chefs, growers, families, and community groups coming together to support urban agriculture.

It was a really fun event to photograph and the food was incredible! My favourite was the savoury sweet cheesecake with cracked pepper, strawberry, and blue cheese.

Hot Art Wet City Interview

Hot Art Wet City is a combination pop up gallery and blog that features an interview with a new artist every week. The idea is to challenge the rumour that all creative folk are fleeing our wet city for the bigger pastures of New York, Toronto, and Montreal.

This week Chris Bentzen, curator and creator of HAWC, met me at my place to interview me about what I do. The video can be seen here.