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Interview by Kris Riendeau
As part of this year’s Human Rights issue, theHumm interviewed John MacTavish, Regional Coordinator for HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) in Kingston. HARS works with individuals in this area who are HIV-positive, from pre-testing all the way through to death, and then provides after-care to families as well. They also provide information and services to gay men and women or people who are questioning their sexuality.
by Sally Hansen
Maybe being born in Cairo, the cradle of one of the world’s greatest ancient civilizations, accounts for Rosemary Kralik’s choice of website names — www.abrushwithimmortality.com. Or maybe it’s because ancient Egyptian art was not intended to create an image of things as they appeared to the eye, but rather to represent the essence of a person or object for eternity.
Kralik specializes in portraiture and figure studies of people and animals, paintings in oils, on linen or other archival supports, drawings in graphite, ink, or other media, and sculptures in clay, bronze, stainless steel, wood or glass. As an artist who works by commission, she flies against the conventional “wisdom” that the public prefers a consistent and readily recognizable artistic style. Instead she capitalizes on her uncanny ability to realize in a painting or sculpture the visions and events that reside only in a patron’s mind or heart. Not only is she an inspired artist, she is a wonderful investigator and interpreter of eternal essence.