S2E4 Stan Dragland’s Puddle-Jumping Mind

Our next three episodes will be dedicated to the exploration of the multidimensional bricolage of Stan Dragland. Stan’s self described “puddle-jumping mind” found itself at home when he was introduced to the term ‘bricoleur’. It encompassed the vast array of his practices in fiction, literary criticism, the visual arts, cultural studies and music all of which were manifest in his love of constructing from found sentences and objects. We begin with Stan’s discovered bricoleur as a handy term for his way of working with things, words and people.

Simon Dragland’s portrait of his Father, Stan.

The Bricoleur & His Sentences

Below. One: Stan’s illustration of text from his Depot Creek song; two: the shed in Champney’s East; three: workbench with installations and works in progress; four: broken hockey sticks framing found items.

“Odd things” : a few of Stan’s creations and some of Doug Penney’s stone creatures

View of Doug Penney’s rock sculptures and a close-up of one like a sculpin, a common fish here in NL.

Stan constructed personalized messages using scrabble tiles. This one celebrates the retirement of Don and himself from Brick Books. Many people received such constructions often in concert with other found items to showcase the words.