Earl Rina

Eight years in Winnipeg, Manitoba, eight years of learning how seasons speak.
I still remember my first fall on September 7, 2018, warm and golden, and then my first snowfall on October 7, 2018, when the world turned quiet and white for the very first time.
Since then, Manitoba has become a place of endless nature adventures, a landscape that taught me to slow down, to look closer, to love the earth as the grand masterpiece it truly is.
Every trail, every sky, every shift of season has shaped me, an artist growing alongside the land.
My Canada adventure, told in every picture: https://earlrina.com/photography/canada

“Let’s Sing” is one of my most inspiring paintings, a celebration of music, featuring a guitarist and a singer. This piece has now found someone who connects with it in the same way I did: through music, through the rhythm of the city, and through the power of creativity to inspire people.
Thank you to Multiverse Market () at Warehouse Artworks Gallery () for a wonderful First Fridays () event on October 2. It was a meaningful evening and a beautifully shared experience.

Enter a night where creativity collides. 🌙🎨
Our first Multiverse Market is happening this at gallery, a gathering of artists, artworks, and imaginative worlds waiting to be explored.

Discover something new, support local creators, and celebrate the vibrant art community that makes Winnipeg shine.

📅 October 2
⏰ 5pm–9pm
📍 — 222 McDermot Ave
✨ Free admission

Pieces of places, echoes of time, and moments that linger long after the shutter closes. Lisbon’s narrow skyward alleys, Tokyo’s crafted temple beams, the pulse of a Manitoba folk festival, the quiet devotion inside a Korean temple, and the enduring stone of a Philippine tower. Each image is a fragment of a life lived across continents, proof that memory doesn’t stay still. It shifts, travels, and reshapes itself, becoming part of who we are. These fragments remind us that every place we touch leaves something behind, and every moment we capture becomes a memory carrying us forward.

A place where you can shroud yourself, alone or with others, becoming part of something wonderful or something you’d rather hide. A space that holds both comfort and discomfort, beauty and shame. In these imagined worlds, we step into the unknown and let it reveal who we are, or who we fear becoming.
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Pieces of places, moments, and feelings stitched across time: a tower glowing in the Cebu night, a quiet path in Korea, a pagoda standing still in Tokyo, neon humming in Montreal, and sunlight spilling over Lisbon’s streets. Each image holds a fragment of who we were, who we are, and who we’re becoming. Memories don’t stay in one place, they travel with us, shift with us, and remind us that every step, every city, every light becomes part of our story.

Creatures of Morphology.
A doorway into something sinister, a scent that turns foul, an intention that holds nothing, and a voice that speaks without sound. What could it be, something that has changed us, or something that has always belonged to us?

In this world, anything can morph: into the beautiful, the unexpected, or the uncanny. Every transformation depends on the experiences you carry and the ones you dare to face. All you can do is hold on, refuse to give up, and keep choosing life by taking risks. Because in the act of becoming, everything shifts.

Looking can be an act of doing, or an act of nothing at all. Sometimes we gaze to understand; sometimes we gaze just to exist. In this world, this strange space between reality and imagination, observation becomes its own language. What we behold can be beautiful, what we perceive might be unsettling, and what we study can challenge us. Through the lens of seeing, eyeing, and looking, entire worlds open or collapse. In the simple act of looking, anything can happen.
This artwork is now part of a private collection after being exhibited in In Q***r Spirits: A Q***rious Art Exhibition at the Edge Gallery & Urban Art Centre.
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What does it mean to be unrealistic yet deeply real? To exist in a space where surrealism and abstraction overlap, an imaginary world layered over this one, connected by feeling, memory, and possibility. A place where the unreal becomes alive, where forms stretch beyond logic, and identities move freely without boundaries. This work becomes a bridge between worlds: the one we know, the one we imagine, and the one we’re still creating. In that in‑between space, every identity can breathe, expand, and exist without limits.
This artwork is now part of a private collection after being exhibited in In Q***r Spirits: A Q***rious Art Exhibition at the Edge Gallery & Urban Art Centre.

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