I met Gord Downie about four years ago. He and his brother, Mike handled me to espresso come my studio in Leslieville and they knowledgeable me about Chanie Wenjack.
I had on no account heard of Chanie Wenjack. Chance is neither had you. I was presently moved by Gord’s heat, ardour and humour. We started working collectively presently.
He would seek the recommendation of with every couple weeks and I could per chance instruct him my drawings. We’d laugh and talk and somewhere in there, there used to be even a 400km snowmobile bolt in arctic temperatures, a hockey sport in a lodge room in Timmins, and due to him I in the end obtained to meet my teenaged dream of joining a rock band, even supposing I cannot play any instruments.
He had a mode about him that made it feel love we could per chance acknowledged every varied for years. I omit him now and I will repeatedly omit him.
We grew to change into chums. Larger than chums…we created one thing collectively. And art on no account dies.
I love you, Gord. You changed my life and made me a greater man and a greater artist. I will mediate you all over again…
xo J