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Myles GoodWyn

MISSING MYLES
Myles and I became friends and I did some work on some of his projects. Saddly he passed too soon.
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There is a temptation, when writing about someone like Gary LeDrew, to treat his life as primarily a series of amusing anecdotes. The Rolling Stones in the booze can. The Commodore 64 winter on a sailboat. The professional Santa Claus credential. These things are genuinely funny, and LeDrew — a natural storyteller who has spent decades refining these tales — tells them as well as anyone alive. But there is something more serious underneath. LeDrew's life is, among other things, a record of Toronto's transformation from a buttoned-up provincial city into a genuine cultural capital — and the role that artists, bootleggers, and bohemians played in dragging it there. The booze cans weren't just illegal bars. They were the infrastructure of a scene, the connective tissue between musicians and painters and writers who needed space to exist on their own terms after the law said the night was over. LeDrew built and ran that infrastructure for five years, and the global touring circuit took notice. His pivot to digital art was equally prescient — an early recognition that the computer was not just a tool but a new medium, one that demanded total commitment. Most artists of his generation never made that leap. He made it completely, abandoning oil forever and never looking back. And the late career in Cape Breton represents something else again: a serious engagement with the question of what gets remembered and what gets lost. Louisbourg is a place of tremendous historical weight — a French fortress town whose fall in 1758 changed the course of North American history, now the site of a major heritage reconstruction. LeDrew paints it, and the lighthouses, and the heritage buildings of Uxbridge, and the mills and churches of rural Ontario, with the particular urgency of someone who has watched too many things disappear. He has, it turns out, been painting the same subject his entire life: people and places that exist at the edge of disappearance, captured just before they go.
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