corner of the gallery

I have been setting up for the Sound Maps exhibit..

A lot of my altered photos will be in it.. along with

installation sound pieces.

Keep you posted on more to come and

when the preview will be..

Walter Benjamin - Paris Arcades

In 1927, on the occasion of a several-months-long visit to Paris, Walter Benjamin began taking notes on the Parisian Arcades for his most ambitious book project, which remained unfinished because of the repeatedly interrupted work process and, ultimately, his suicide in Portbou in 1940 when fleeing the German occupation. It was published posthumously as The Arcades Project. ...

more of the story here:

http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00002894&lang=en

just a note..

thank you for all coming to our movie night last night..
and looking forward to the next one!

gorgeous far away animation

~  La Planete Sauvage  ~

also known as

Fantastic Planet ~ created in 1973

..Directed by Rene Laloux.

The film was produced in both 

France and Czechoslovakia

and won the special jury prize at the

1973 Cannes Film Festival.

today in the gallery..

 i worked on old book paper walls..

and sections of an installation project i'm doing.

then- a few of my artist friends,

 that live in the building, stopped by and

we had sandwiches and lemonade.

 and this is a view of my work station.

a bit of inspiration when i'm sitting at the drawing table.

[Pippa sent me the woman above 

and below is a picture of the Bauhaus circle]