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Category: landscape

  • Morant Bay, Jamaica

    “The events at Morant Bay in 1865 followed on the heels a period of public meetings known as the Underhill Meetings, and peaceful expression of grievances through petitions. Complaints included a series of economic issues related to wages, land tenure, access to markets, and labor rights; political issues related to unfair taxation, no justice in the courts, and elite-biased government policies; and civil issues that included voting rights, and access to healthcare, education, and land. In that sense it was not a riot so much as a social movement, which was rejected by the Governor and finally turned to violence against the representatives of the local government.”

    via Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library. Research for future works.

  • Dominica, post-hurricane Maria

    Dominica. Hurricane Maria. 2017. via The Guardian.

    Research for the future.

  • AG2019_MG_7568a or found on a known peripatetic circuit

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    Downtown Miami, 062619, 6:40 pm.

    “I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note […]. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness.

    Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. ” Lauren Elkin, in her wonderful Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London via BP

    One more quote from Elkin,

    “[…] walk[ing] […] confers — or restores — a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.

    I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. […]

    You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead [my emphasis].”

  • AG2019_MG_7543a or sweet and lawless

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    Cheryl Boyce-Taylor.

    Boyce-Taylor’s son was Malik Taylor (Phife Dawg). Condolences.

  • AG2019_MG_7409a or of all places

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    […] through this place of
    love move
    (with brightness of […])
    all places

    After Cummings, PSA, BP.

  • NW 32 st.

    And its offerings.

  • Beehives

    At Public Hives‘s Little Haiti site. Covered hive by Nadia Wolff.

  • New Orleans and Cap-Haitien – sister cities

    Mayor Cantrell Signs Sister City Agreement Between New Orleans and Cap-Haitien


    NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell today signed an agreement to become a “sister city” with Cap-Haitien, located on the north coast of Haiti.
    “The origins of this relationship and shared history are born from the independence of Haiti and the doubling of the New Orleans population comprised of an exodus of free people of color, French colonists and slaves from Saint Domingue/Haiti upon defeat of the French rule, resulting in the Louisiana Purchase,” Mayor Cantrell said, in reading the agreement. “New Orleans is Haiti’s first Diaspora. New Orleans and Cap-Haitien (formerly Cap Francais) are twin sisters separated by birth. Today, many residents of New Orleans and the whole of Louisiana trace their ancestry to Cap-Haitien and other parts of Haiti. In recent years, many visits have been made and friendships built.”
    “By this agreement,” Mayor Cantrell said in conclusion, “we celebrate a common heritage and seek to reinforce strong ties and secure a relationship that will persist into our futures.”
    Mayor Cantrell signed the agreement along with Cap-Haitien Mayor Yverose Pierre, who spoke glowingly of the two cities’ relationship.
    Other speakers included Alexis Neives, Commercial and Industrial Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Haiti; and Vladimir Laborde of Haiti Inc.
    Some of the features of the agreement include:
    Academic cooperation between the respective cities’ universities and other educational institutions
    Cooperation and exchange between local development agencies, chambers of commerce, and tourism departments
    Opportunities for exchanges of art and cultural products between the cities’ respective museums and galleries, and other cultural institutions
    Opportunities for municipal exchanges, including economic development in the areas of tourism, agriculture, infrastructure, city management and waste and water management – as well as emergency preparedness, disaster management and climate change.
    Other honored guests included District B City Councilmember Jay H. Banks; Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Xavier University; Lisa Alexis, Director of the City’s Office of Cultural Economy. Invited guests included Régine Chassagne, co-founder of the band Arcade Fire and co-founder of the Haitian-themed group Krewe of Kanaval.

    nola.gov, May 21, 2019.