Bear your heART, last night my wife Sarah and I talked uncomfortably about the signs of the times and how the world's social structure seems unravelling, moving towards chaos. She showed me YouTubes of "Foodie Beauty" and I shared Robert Anton Wilson's 'Information Explosion"
2016 The crumpling umbrella, Banned Fire and Rain art project.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
" I'll Be Your Mirror "
Friday, 27 September 2019
2020-09-27 Greta Thunberg Climate Strike, Alberta Legislature.
2019-09-26 Day 913: 'The Alberta legislature has no dome' completed early morning. First painted next to Service of Christ on the Alberta Legislature grounds beginning the same day of Paris Notre Dame Fire April 15, 2019. The flowers were painted by 3 girls between the ages 8 to 10, 4 #ClimateStrike activists, 1 #yellowvest activist named Les, a war veteran, my friends Paul and his sister Anne, a Catholic woman, and a man from Hong Kong.
2019-09-22 All Faith candlelight vigil Alberta Legislature
#ClimateStrike The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth. Revelation 11:18
#ClimateStrikeART 2019-09-23 Daughter and her Dad
#ClimateStrikeART 2019-09-22 Young girl and Veteran
#ClimateStrikeART 2019-09-21 Hong Kong & Rosary
#ClimateStrikeART 2019-09-20 Jason Kenney & Tesla
First coat of paint "The Alberta Legislature has no dome" painted April 15, 2019 next to the Alberta Legislature "Service of Christ" on the same day fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France.
PARIS — A catastrophic fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. Calgary Herald
2019-08-29 The Alberta legislature has no dome (Placard) #ClimateStrike #Extinction
Symbolism of domes
According to E. Baldwin Smith, from the late Stone Age the dome-shaped tomb was used as a reproduction of the ancestral, god-given shelter made permanent as a venerated home of the dead. The instinctive desire to do this resulted in widespread domical mortuary traditions across the ancient world, from the stupas of India to the tholos tombs of Iberia. By Hellenistic and Roman times, the domical tholos had become the customary cemetery symbol. Domes and tent-canopies were also associated with the heavens in Ancient Persia and the Hellenistic-Roman world. A dome over a square base reflected the geometric symbolism of those shapes. The circle represented perfection, eternity, and the heavens. The square represented the earth. An octagon was intermediate between the two. The distinct symbolism of the heavenly or cosmic tent stemming from the royal audience tents of Achaemenid and Indian rulers was adopted by Roman rulers in imitation of Alexander the Great, becoming the imperial baldachin. This probably began with Nero, whose "Golden House" also made the dome an essential feature of palace architecture.The dual sepulchral and heavenly symbolism was adopted by early Christians in both the use of domes in architecture and in the ciborium, a domical canopy like the baldachin used as a ritual covering for relics or the church altar. The celestial symbolism of the dome, however, was the preeminent one by the Christian era. In the early centuries of Islam, domes were closely associated with royalty. A dome built in front of the mihrab of a mosque, for example, was at least initially meant to emphasize the place of a prince during royal ceremonies. Over time such domes became primarily focal points for decoration or the direction of prayer. The use of domes in mausoleums can likewise reflect royal patronage or be seen as representing the honor and prestige that domes symbolized, rather than having any specific funerary meaning. The wide variety of dome forms in medieval Islam reflected dynastic, religious, and social differences as much as practical building considerations. Wikipedia
Extinction: The Alberta Legislature has no dome, featured here on a cartoon I created early in spring depicting the weekly climate strike and yellow vest protests in front of the Alberta Legislature. Painted from the vantage point of Herman Poulin's 10-foot tall bronze monument “Service through Christ” on the same day of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire April 15, 2019. The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch as a result of human activity. This large number of extinctions spans numerous families of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods. With widespread degradation of highly biodiverse habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests, as well as other areas, the vast majority of these extinctions are thought to be undocumented, as the species are undiscovered at the time of their extinction, or no one has yet discovered their extinction. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background rates. The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published by IPBES in 2019 posits that roughly one million species of plants and animals face extinction caused by anthropogenic impacts. Wikipedia Continued...
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Trouble maker, the coming storms
'Trouble maker, the coming storms' Started fall 2017, locations outside #NDP Premier Rachel Notley's Alberta Legislature office. Again winter 2019 during a protest between #yellowVests #Antifacist. Completed today outside #UCP Premier Jason Kenney's Alberta Legislature office. More Circles than Squares art project
Inspired from my 2016 Fire and Rain art project painting 'Fire, Rain, Circles, Squares' my preconceived impression of humans, land animals, sea animals and plant life after the 6th extinction becomes the next generation of fossil fuels.
"Sideways" by Doug Brinkman Was inspired Saturday morning July, 27 2019 while walking to the Alberta Legislature for a day of painting. Along the way I saw a red man (panhandler) yelling at almost everyone it seemed walking by in front of the 7-11 on Jasper avenue and 104th street. A black man toting a luggage bag came out of the 7-11 and the red man asked him for money. The black man declined so the red man began to yell at him too. The black man responded by gesturing to the red man with his middle finger and this agitated the red man to jump up and yell at the black man "GO BACK FROM WHERE YOU CAME FROM!" challenging the black man to fight. The black man fled having no interest in fighting while the red man kept yelling...
Sunday, 23 June 2019
Alberta Climate Strike
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Protesters & Counter Protesters, Chill
Saturday, 20 April 2019
The Legislature has no dome
As this painting was in the planning stages earlier in the week, news broke of an 800-year-old cathedral Notre-Dame in France suffered severe damage from fire.
"Mother Earth is ready to cleanse. The natural shape is a circle, our cells are a circle, stars are a circle, the sun, the
moon, the earth. The mother's womb is a circle. I don't believe we should be living in these squares." Chief No Tribe, 2016 Fire and Rain art project
Monday, 11 March 2019
"Up to snow good"
-Unknown
Snow Angel HeARTS by Doug Brinkman
Philippians 2:13, NIV: "for it is God who works in you to will
and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."
"When life gives you too much snow… make snow angels."
-Unknown
"Snowflakes are snow angels blowing kisses from heaven."
-Unknown
"Artistic freedom is complementary to press freedom" Deelah Khan, Goodwill Ambassador
For almost 2 years I picketed the Alberta Government and Legislature press core demanding my right to a press pass into the Alberta Legislature with the same privileges employees with the corporate news media employees have including press releases and participating in press scrums. After 187 days picketing I decided to suspend my picket for now to prepare my next social art project "Freedom to Express and Listen" that will combine 6 years of social art projects. I will continue my picket later in 2020...
Canadian Press Reporter assaults me
with my own camera obstructing my right to a press pass
Photo from my 2016 Fire and Rain art project that was banned 3 times, twice by the Sergeant-at arms Brian Hodgsen and his Visitors Services Manager Al Chapman. I was first banned from painting on the Alberta Legislature grounds January 2016 by the facilities manager of the Alberta Infrastructure claiming concerns over liability issues. A total of 8 days of my picketing the Alberta Government defending my right to freely express art on the Alberta Legislature grounds resulted in a letter February 2016, of permission to paint and show my art on the grounds that later overruled Brian Hodgsen's 2 bans later in the year.
The Forth ban: 2019: Art banned: Do you think this is an honourable place?' asked the Speaker's Sergeant-at-arms, after banning my t-shirt I was wearing that said "Pipelines, Alberta United, A Nation Divided" and my use of ASL American Sign Language inside the Alberta Legislature public gallery. They claim a complaint was made by an employee of news media.
2016 Fire and Rain art collection
Focused on Alberta wildfires and flooding
Wildfire - January 2016, next to Edmonton City Hall's ice rink
Three Trees by the Premiers Office - March 1, 2016
First Day Painting after art ban lifted
Wildfire
Wood Buffalo Wildfire - Alberta Legislature Art Show and Tell
Gift to NDP MLA Anam Kazim, noon hour May 3, 2016
Fort McMurray - The Beast, 5 PM May 3, 2016
Fort McMurray Surreal - Doors, Jack Bush has anxiety attack
Photo: Honeymoon in Jasper National Park
Jasper Park, excelsior creek wildfire aftermath
NBC Reporting on the Alberta's Wildfires - Oil-Sands Shutdown
The Great Escape - Fort McMurray Wildfire
Queen Elizabeth Park wildfire 6 weeks later
(Gift to Julie Franz)
El-Nino , La-Nina 2016
(Re-Painted Over)
North Saskatchewan River Rising - Edmonton Queen
(Re-Painted Over)
Fire and Rain Outdoor Old Strathcona Art Show and Tell
