(Photo by Marcus Macdonald)

“I like to daydream about futures
(like ones where cars have less food,
so more city roads are turned into pastures).
I enjoy flying over landscapes of memory
to discover their hold on the present.
And I spends a lot of time being
with the miracles
that our senses are always giving us.
I often finds new hobbies
and discards others—
in comes wood carving
and out goes reading about genetics.
Wood carving out, aikido in.
I listen a lot
to the wordless signals
of my body, decoding.”

Ian has one foot in the world of poetry, one in film,
another in music, yet another in garden soil,
and one that still manages to kick up space dust on the moon.
He was born in Edmonton in 1974,
and has since lived in Vancouver, Brooklyn and Montreal.