Bob MacKenzie

     A widely published Canadian writer, Bob MacKenzie has for more than thirty years expressed his art in a multi-media format involving printed, spoken, and sung words; performance; and multi-media visual art involving photography, painting, print making, and collage.
     Drawing upon a tradition of art that originates before historic recollection, Bob considers all the so-called arts to be part of a greater whole: Art.
     Based upon this philosophy, Bob understands the choice to paint, write a novel, play music, make a sculpture, or produce any form of art simply to be a choice of media. He does not differentiate between a stage play and a sonata, a symphony and an acrylic painting, a novel and a motion picture.
     Rather, Bob considers that all art, originally used in ritual and religion and to express the news and morés of culture, is simply Story. The choice the artist makes is, at root, in which mode to tell that story.
     Bob is founder of the performance group Poem de Terre, from which most of the music and the overall sound of the new compact disc Assume Nothing has evolved.