The current monarch of the UK and her relatives have spent far too much time occupying our symbols. It’s time to begin the next stage of the decolonization process. We need to decapitate our coins and recapitate them with actual Canadian heads. Undo this insidiousness. Deravel this royal revel. Decolonize our symbols now!

This series is a nod to the artist’s stamp collecting days of carefully arranging static designs with shifting colours and numbers on an album page. And, yes, many of those static designs were royal heads – especially the UK’s Machin series. Some of those stamps will appear in the Queenhead Collage-o-rama Series. See if you can spot ’em!

There are 95 – 9” x 12” x 2″ pieces in this series that is being publicly presented in the year of Ms. Windsor’s 95^th birthday. Each piece is $95 (including taxes).

Technical Notes

Each piece consists of a 9” x 12” x 2″ birch wood cradle with birch, laser woodcut numbers and head(s). All parts are primed, painted with two coats and covered by two layers of water-based polyacrylic. The backs contain the artist’s signature and more information about the series, The back also lets you know what YOU can do to start claiming our FULL national identity.

DR1 and DR2 are 3″ in thickness.

In the first two subsets (DR1-DR26), the heads are mounted on signed (JDMG) oak blocks.

In the third subset (DR27-DR36), the heads are off the oak blocks (which are unsigned).

In the subsets DR39-DR64, some queenheads and letters extend beyond the dimensions of the wood panels.

The pieces are named for the paint colour of the queenhead and the paint colour of the wood cradle. The (sometimes funky) names of the paint come straight from the tube or can label (except for one custom mix).