You don't have to be a Newfoundlander to feel David Blackwood's art, but it helps. I'm not a Newfoundlander, but my family's lifeline run deep through the island's rocky skin and bones. My mother's family were fishers, jigging for cod for several generations in the deep waters off Upper Amherst Cove, a small fishing outport 10 kilometres from Bonavista, Canada's most easterly point, a 4-hour circuitous drive from St. John's. A boat can travel by straight line across the Atlantic between … [Read more...]