Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Art Chicago 2017
Here’s some pics from Art Chicago 2017:
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How To Number a Notebook
One of the essential rituals of my journal-keeping is the numbering of the pages of a new book. To me, touching each page is an incantation, invitation, prayer. Contemplate the glory and the words that will be scratched there. Time conflates and folds over and everything happens at once. I keep five types of journals at…
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When Irma was a child
In 1993, John F. Burns, my favorite journalist ever, wrote an article in the New York Times: British Fly to Bosnian Girl’s Rescue. Here’s a snip: SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 9— After worldwide publicity about her plight, a 5-year-old girl severely wounded by a Serbian artillery shell was evacuated today from Sarajevo by a British…
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Trip to Venice
S-L and I went to Venice for the Bienniale. Here’s pictures: Here’s a series of captions that I am too lazy to map up to the corresponding photos: Rizzo reminded me of The Jerky Boys Paul Benney: Speaking in Tongues at Venice in a Bottle Festival della Arti and on Facebook Marzia Migliora, MARZIA IMPROVES Ca ‘Rezzonico…
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First Day of School, 2017
Today was the first day of school for my youngest son. I arrived early— I always like the sun position on the first day of school. Still high in the sky, but lowering— you can feel the lowering. Bright greens remain. Blooms are still relevant.