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"New Orleans is rotting and tragically fresh," said Herbie Kearney, a painter and sculptor whose studio was destroyed. "We have to come back and make art. If you don't have culture, the city will become Disneyland for condo people."
yokohama 2005 triennale of contemporary artit looks like container structures are becoming a symbol/staple of international art fairs. look for the but-hole house with large and small intestine wings.
’speybank’ by luc deleu (1944), belgium the artist has often worked with containers in creating buildings, due to his interest in mobility and infrastructure. with the arrival of multimedia society /with the transition from ‘substance’ to ‘image’ the artist has build temporary structures, unrestricted by time and physical place.
after reading jim louis's post about eating oyster po-boys i started thinking about where the oysters came from. they would have come out of the gulf of mexico just as they were prior to katrina? then i began pondering the water quality in the gulf. time line : levee breaks, floods nola. levees patched, black flood water including petroleum, lead and other heavy metals are pumped back into lake pontchartrain which runs down into the gulf of mexico which is where the oysters live.
isnt it time to retire the word whimsy? for me it always conjures radishes :
Thelma Todd : Oh, Professor, you're full of whimsy.but more to the point, i spy our friend tony's chair in this weeks sketchpad make-over.
Groucho : Can you notice it from there? I'm always that way after I eat radishes.