New Project Announcement: A Letter Club Begins

This June, I’ve launched a new ongoing letter series, What I Could Not Say Aloud, hosted exclusively on Substack.

The project gathers intimate letters written between the personal and the imagined—blending fragments of daily life with fictional gossip, quiet desire, and the shifting atmosphere of connection between men.

Part of my continued movement toward gay romance, these letters focus less on plot and more on feeling: what lingers, what is withheld, and what is easier written than said.

Launched during Pride Month, this series is a quieter offering—an exploration of intimacy, memory, and queer life in its more subtle forms.

Launching Ink&Pixel, a Direct-to-Reader Online Bookstore

Artist and author Spencer Sheehan Kalina has officially launched Ink&Pixel, a new online bookstore dedicated exclusively to his written work. The platform marks a significant step in his evolving creative practice, offering readers direct access to his growing catalog of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction titles.

With Ink&Pixel, Spencer moves beyond traditional publishing and retail models, creating a space where the relationship between writer and reader is more immediate, intentional, and personal. Every book available through the store is offered directly by the author, without intermediaries—an approach that reflects his broader commitment to creative independence.

The bookstore brings together a wide range of work, from reflective poetry collections and queer romance to creative guides and experimental prose. Rather than presenting these as isolated titles, Ink&Pixel functions as a curated archive—one that allows readers to explore connections across themes of nature, intimacy, place, and process that run throughout Spencer’s writing.

In addition to access, the platform also emphasizes autonomy. By selling his work directly, Spencer retains full control over how his books are presented, priced, and distributed. This allows for greater flexibility, including the ability to experiment with formats, release structures, and pricing models—such as recent multi-edition publications that invite readers to engage at different levels.

The launch of Ink&Pixel reflects a growing movement among independent artists who are rethinking how creative work is shared and sustained. In this context, the bookstore is not just a retail space, but part of a larger ecosystem—one that supports ongoing creation while fostering a closer connection with readers.

For visitors, the experience is designed to feel less like browsing a storefront and more like entering a body of work in progress. Titles can be encountered individually or as part of a larger, evolving collection—an approach that mirrors the continuity and depth of Spencer’s practice.

Ink&Pixel is now live, with titles available for purchase directly through the platform.

As Spencer continues to expand his catalog, the bookstore stands as both a home for the work and an invitation: to read, to explore, and to engage more deeply with a creative voice that is still very much unfolding.

Visit the store by clicking the link here: InkandPixelBooks

Releasing A Multi-Edition Artist Catalog Exploring Access and Scale

Artist and author Spencer Sheehan Kalina has announced the release of an ambitious new project that challenges conventional ideas of what a book—and an artist catalog—can be.

Titled Anything And Everything From Anywhere and Everywhere All Together And All At Once: Artist Catalog, the work is being released simultaneously in three distinct editions, each offering readers a different level of access to the same overarching body of material.

Rather than presenting a single, fixed publication, the project introduces a tiered structure: an Abridged Edition priced at $1, a Standard Edition at $10, and a Definitive Edition at $100. While all three editions draw from the same core work, each expands in scope, with progressively more material included at each level.

The release reflects a deliberate shift away from traditional publishing models. By offering multiple editions at significantly different price points, Kalina creates a framework that balances accessibility with depth—allowing readers to engage with the work at a level that suits both their interest and their means.

At its core, the catalog functions less as a static record and more as an evolving archive. It gathers together a wide range of creative output, emphasizing accumulation, variation, and continuity rather than a singular, definitive statement. The structure of the release mirrors this philosophy, suggesting that no single version can fully contain the scope of the work.

The project’s expansive title underscores this intention. Anything and Everything From Anywhere and Everywhere All Together And All At Once points to a practice that resists simplification, instead embracing multiplicity and scale.

This approach also reflects a broader ethos within Kalina’s work—one that values process as much as product, and that views creative output as something lived with over time rather than consumed in a single sitting.

All three editions are now available exclusively through the artist’s website. In fact, they are the only thing which the artist’s website store will carry, an iact of intention that the artist hopes will help frame the project as a piece as a project as its own entity which extends beyond the confines of being a publication.

With this release, Kalina not only expands his catalog but also offers a subtle critique of how art is typically packaged and distributed—proposing instead a model where readers are invited to choose their own depth of engagement within a shared creative landscape.

Returning To Work In 2026

After an extended break away from publicly practicing art after the 2024 holiday season, Spencer has returned to actively working. On Spencer’s personal blog is the post “2026 Announcement Bulletin Board”, where Spencer shares the highlights of his art practice, most meaningful to him, in a way that makes them easily available to peruse. Most recently, in January, Spencer has offered an open letter imploring for the protection of North Island College’s Fine Arts Department, which is facing risk of closure, made available on his personal blog.

Artisan Crayons Now Available At CVAG

The hand-made, artisan crayons Spencer has been busy laboring over for the last year are now available in box sets and individually at the Comox Valley Art Gallery’s Shop: Made. You can visit their location in person to bring some of these beautiful drawing tools home with you at 580 Duncan Avenue Courtenay, BC.

This is the second location to hold Spencer’s crayons, outside of his own online store. CVAG (Comox Valley Art Gallery) now joins the Local Artisan in Powell River/Qauthet Region’s Townsite Market in offering these little sculptures for people to enjoy and make art with.

Some new locations are slated to be carrying these little gems! Keep checking back here to see where else you may be able to pick up your own set of crayons made by Spencer in the near future!

Attending Holiday Markets

Spencer Sheehan Kalina will be attending select markets and craft fairs this season. He is hoping to have the opportunity to meet his community members, other creativities, and old friends and family. If you happen to be there, say hello! He loves it when people come to see him and say hi! If you’re interested in connecting, here is a current list of where he’ll be sharing his work:

November 25, Gold River, 6pm to 8pm, The Gold River Community Centre
November 26, Gold River, 10am to 2pm, The Gold River Community Centre

December 9, Qualicum, 10am - 4pm, The Old School House Centre
December 10, Qualicum, 10am - 4pm, The Old School House Centre

Away On Medical Leave

Right now Spencer Sheehan Kalina is away on medical leave due to health complications. While we will still be operating, things will have delays and a different work flow, so we can accommodate Spencer’s health concerns. We thank you, in advance, for your patience as we walk through these challenging times.

For more information read his blog post about it here.

Updates to Website

Hello Friends,

This website is going through some big changes. Content is being added, refined and edited out. . I’m hoping that these new changes will help make browsing through this website more easy, fun and informative. The changes happening here are part of a larger online rebranding effort where I hope to be able to bring the work I do to people in a more streamlined way. So, as things continue to roll out, I will keep you all posted about those moves here on this blog. For now, however, I hope this blog post finds you well and that you find all the changes coming along here for the better.

Keeping you posted,

Spencer