Harvey Chometsky is a working artist who has lived in Powell River for the past sixteen years. He has worked in publishing and acted as curator for both a commercial art gallery and a public art gallery. His creative evolution has taken him through many mediums including: writing, drawing, photography, millfelt, automobile, and lately, he has immersed himself in the virtual world. He has exhibited his work in Berlin, New Orleans, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.

Artist Statement for current exhibition: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW refers to the ever present world that flows past my window eyes, which have their own memory that my hands attempt to translate into realtiy...into meaning. Forty years of making Art brings me to the brink of this understanding: The Opposite of War is Art, and the urge for freedom is the source of creation.

My mother, bless her memory, would often tell the sweet story of three-year-old-me who, when asked his age, would say: "I'm Free!", to which my mother, bless her memory would say: "And he still is!" I was a witness to the destruction of Paradise in those Jack Frost days I remember the intricate beauty of the designs on our frozen windows...the recognition of art in nature...but I was a child of Industry and always have lived on the frontlines where the Progress Jaws transform the landscape. I have seen beauty in the moongleam of a bullsaw, sublimely at rest one Sunday back in my northern childhood.

VIEW FROM MY WINDOW pays homage to my friend and mentor, Sonia Cornwall, bless her memory, who reminded me of where Art resides, as it always has, where you are, in the here and now. Every artist learns about the present moment...its where the action is...it is where it all happens. And the window looks both ways. It is what being a window means. Mythic images appear in dreams and art and gain life. Such is the work of the artist, constantly working on the threshhold where Trickster stands grinning.