Coombaya International Holdings Limited
Pick Up - Nanaimo

First I'll tell you that I'm an old hippie. So every week I would hop on a Greyhound bus from Ottawa to St. Lawrence Boulevard in Montreal just to pick up four dozen white Pakistani T-Shirts, at six dollars a dozen! That was a time when we all lived in co-ops. I was determined to change that and create my own coloured T-Shirt. Back then, you couldn't get coloured T-Shirts, due to the Marlon Brando 'white T-Shirt syndrome' craze. But my favourite medium has always been T-Shirts, which I have been making for 40 years. Throughout my life, I've always created art in different forms. I lived in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and lived in Southern California in the coastal towns' beach scenes, even in a '59 Cadillac Hearse for a bit! I travelled around North America, hitchhiked through Europe and even worked on Kibbutz's in Israel. I did all the clichés of the 60's. I had a big cauldron on the stove and every day I would mix a batch of different coloured Rit dye.