I still grieve.
Peter was a close friend of mine for many years. We met at Sheridan College while taking Art Fundamentals back in the 1980s. He was a very good photographer, visual artist, and musician.
There was an intensity to Peter’s work, as though he were seeing beyond the veil.
Peter never tried too hard to fit in, and his life was an expression of the belief that art and creativity are important.
Let’s talk about soul ties, or perhaps “people we know in spirit.” Have you ever noticed someone you have never met before and somehow known that you know them? How many of us have the nerve to actually say something. We just endure these odd moments of irrational recognition and move on. My wife, Laura, and I call it the feeling of meeting “one of those people”—someone special we feel a connection to that we cannot rationally explain.
What would it be like if we acted on those moments of irrational spiritual recognition? I have done it a few times, and it has always been a good decision. Peter was one of those people for me. The memory is vague; it happened around 1981, I simply decided to start talking to this unusual art student, and there began a lifelong friendship.
When Peter died a few years ago, I was crushed. He was my go-to person to discuss whatever oddity I had encountered, knowing we would have a deep-dive discussion about it. Drawing and art have always been my first love, but life got in the way for the past four decades, I am now venturing back into taking art seriously and grieve that I cannot discuss all this with Peter.
I have more old photos to dig up and more drawings of Peter to do.
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