Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Mardi Gras 2007
in the interim the Pheonix burns
I have the best story..
I went up to a man that looked much like my friend Neil Alexander & asked"NEIL"? I thought he didn't hear me & when I said it again....he kneeled down before me..... I didn't know what to say!!!!
what a beginning of a day
It was a beautiful morning as I took off for the long walk
to
Jim Gabour’s in the Marigny
to meet up with the crew of St. Ann
it was going to be a long day.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Galleries
I went to the Tate Modern last week. It has the perfect spot for Flood Wall.
On inquiry I was given a document that said:
"Exhibition proposals may be sent to Paul McAree in Exhibitions and Displays at the Tate Modern. All proposals will be considered by curatorial staff, however, it must be stressed that submissions from artists to exhibit their work at the Tate Modern are rarely included in the programme."
On inquiry I was given a document that said:
"Exhibition proposals may be sent to Paul McAree in Exhibitions and Displays at the Tate Modern. All proposals will be considered by curatorial staff, however, it must be stressed that submissions from artists to exhibit their work at the Tate Modern are rarely included in the programme."
Sunday, January 15, 2006
FLOOD WALL
this is a small section of what the wall will look like, a view of intimacy and loss
As families returned to assess the damage to their homes and neighborhoods, one of the first signs of life was the appearance of a heap of trash at curbside.
The 600 drawers incorporated in Napoli's installation were collected from all across New Orleans -- in Gentilly, in Central City, Uptown and in the East, in Bywater, Carrollton, the French Quarter, the Ninth Ward Lakeview and Mid-City. Graphic artist Rondell Crier will collaborat with Napoli to create a digital database documenting where the drawers are from and any information about the families who discarded them. The drawers are categorized by size and color, their knobs or the lack of them, their age, whether hand-made or mass-produced. This digital database will be presented via an interactive computer kiosk near the memorial wall. Both installations evoke and comment on the differences that divide and unite us. They also underscore that our lives are more than just our thoughts and physical embodiment. Our lives are our neighborhoods, our family, our friends, our neighbors, our workplace, our schools, our communities, our animals, our gardens, our personal property, and even our furniture drawers, the place where we store our secrets, our past lives, our photos, our mementos, our passions and our hopes and dreams.
As families returned to assess the damage to their homes and neighborhoods, one of the first signs of life was the appearance of a heap of trash at curbside.
The 600 drawers incorporated in Napoli's installation were collected from all across New Orleans -- in Gentilly, in Central City, Uptown and in the East, in Bywater, Carrollton, the French Quarter, the Ninth Ward Lakeview and Mid-City. Graphic artist Rondell Crier will collaborat with Napoli to create a digital database documenting where the drawers are from and any information about the families who discarded them. The drawers are categorized by size and color, their knobs or the lack of them, their age, whether hand-made or mass-produced. This digital database will be presented via an interactive computer kiosk near the memorial wall. Both installations evoke and comment on the differences that divide and unite us. They also underscore that our lives are more than just our thoughts and physical embodiment. Our lives are our neighborhoods, our family, our friends, our neighbors, our workplace, our schools, our communities, our animals, our gardens, our personal property, and even our furniture drawers, the place where we store our secrets, our past lives, our photos, our mementos, our passions and our hopes and dreams.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
You can still tell its Christmas in New Orleans
The men in camouflage are now, though, in Jackson Sq.
The ducks are walking the suburbs
But the Satsuma men are still on the highways.
Arlo Guthrie played on Jacson Sq for New Years Eve...
The ducks are walking the suburbs
But the Satsuma men are still on the highways.
Arlo Guthrie played on Jacson Sq for New Years Eve...
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Sunday, November 13, 2005
It was the Easter that no little white Mary Jane’s could be found to fit my skinny feet; it began there.
They had to take me to the Cathedral for a late Mass so that I wouldn’t see any of the girls I knew.
So, when I tried to get a light reading the first morning out after the storm & my feet showed up in the viewfinder, it all began again.
Nuevo Phoenix
On October the 17th, a Monday, I walked the dog in "The Woods" as cousin Al struggled to recover Ana & I from the deep suburbs of Baton Rouge. Packing all of the worldly possessions that I thought I was escaping with in August, after Katrina into his pickup, with overflow going to the ever gracious Napoli cousin in the truck that shadowed Ana & Al back to Metaire & dry ground, we split. We are now a short bridge crossing from the center of the damage in the converted garage where we now live, thanks to the graciousness of Laura Ann, whom I grew up with & is now stuck with us for a long time.
Roger Rubin said not to make any major decisions till the 20th of October & I do hope this does not fall into that category. It was a full moon & we were crazy.
Mothers condo has been plucked clean & is part of the rebirth here in Nuevo
Phoenix where courage is
hand & hand with the possibilities left by the void.
Fun without
electricity or roof
is not out of our reach, at least on the moral level. Ana has survived the trauma, but not unaffected & l myself have felt very lost, a most humbling experience for a world adventurer.
Ana had asked me if I could BREAK Her FACE, the night of the hurricane, since she realized that I would have to carry her out on my back. She buckled herself down to
survival mode after her wheel chair made it out of the black halls & 2 stories of steps of the condo to hit the morning sun light of exodus. I have been well trained.
Roger Rubin said not to make any major decisions till the 20th of October & I do hope this does not fall into that category. It was a full moon & we were crazy.
Mothers condo has been plucked clean & is part of the rebirth here in Nuevo
Phoenix where courage is
hand & hand with the possibilities left by the void.
Fun without
electricity or roof
is not out of our reach, at least on the moral level. Ana has survived the trauma, but not unaffected & l myself have felt very lost, a most humbling experience for a world adventurer.
Ana had asked me if I could BREAK Her FACE, the night of the hurricane, since she realized that I would have to carry her out on my back. She buckled herself down to
survival mode after her wheel chair made it out of the black halls & 2 stories of steps of the condo to hit the morning sun light of exodus. I have been well trained.
