LAMONT'S LIARY

Dief, the chief, founding publisher of the Liary, completed several of his grade 11 courses at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School in the bucolic community of Orleans, Ontario. 

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​He is a decorated Customer Service Representative (CSR) with three tours of duty on the graveyard shift at the Top Valu Gas Bar and Car Wash on Industrial Avenue, by Exit 23 on the Queensway.  

 

Top Valu Gas Bars — where FREE   windshield service

comes with every fill-up,  and Gold Bond Stamps are still honoured.

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His free time is devoted to the visual arts, and he is considered by some to be a co-flounder of the Group of Seven Millenials Phone-ography.  

 

Dief is best known for his bold and enchanting attempts to bring the tepid works of Jackson Pollock into the 21st Century.  A recent show, at the revitalized Star Top Drive-in (out the old Cyrville Road, the first right before K-Mart), was stunning.  He rotated through an entire carousal of slides on a Kodak 4200 Projector.  It was a 35 millimetre divination of Art's future.

 

Using old-wave platforms of ancient design — salt pollock dried over peat hearths, in the Orkney tradition — he established ritualized canvases that were layered like a lasagna with primary colours, and then mounted on wobbly shopping carts authentically sourced from a local tent city.  

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The canvases — still wet, to suggest that erotic anticipation is not singularly the preserve of sentient mammals or mantids — were rolled through the rinse cycle at the next-door car wash until the images within were revealed.  Images hidden by the dust of the Big Bang, and only revealed by the Universal Detergent.

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Dief is pursuing accreditation through the Rodman School of Mixed Marshal Arts & Sharing Economies, with the goal of developing an algorithim to rephrase text messages according to the receivers preferences.

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