Tag: Gladstone

A Remembrance on Remembrance Day

My father rarely spoke about his war experiences, so when he did so one evening in December 1987, I recorded the conversation as best I could remember it in my journal.  At a restaurant for dinner, my father reminisced about the old days: but what else do people reminisce about? Britain declared war against Germany…

A sketch of artist Gerald Gladstone

Humanity’s future: will it be “earthbound” or “spacebound”? My uncle, the artist Gerald Gladstone, posed this question to me recently outside Yorkdale shopping centre in North York. We were standing in the parking lot near The Bay, beside one of his major works, a bronze colossus called Universal Man, which was installed there in late…