Nearly midnight, the night before the Crawl, and still lots to be done. Tomorrow the two pieces East Van Graphics is printing arrive; a 6X8 desktop ‘‘12 buddha strathcona 2010 calendar ’’and a card of Val Arntzen’s beautiful ‘‘Bullets to Buddhas’’ piece.

The calendar is a first showing of a series in process, photographing buddhas in Strathcona. This last summer, I started a kind of loosening up, carry-the-camera-around exercise as antidote to nearly a year at the computer, working on the Lu Kang mural project; everything felt stiff, inside and out. Six weeks into these little daily meanders through my neighbourhood, I realized there were several little series forming. The ‘‘12 buddha strathcona 2010 calendar’’ is a first offering from this work