You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
The zigzag line on the building.
The ad has to to with The World Cup, only 22 days away. I’ll have to find a way to watch some of the games. I ‘ll use the technique du jour (google and bittorrent). I also expect to see games via yourtube and yahoo webcast.
These are from my walk in between cutting, glueing and drawing.
I guess it has been around since december; we only went there for the first time last saturday. Prices are ok, not exuberant. Selection is genereally good. We suspect this market is owned by The Home Depot, but they only stress that they were “Founded in 1982 by the Berry Family, The Fresh Market has grown to 47 stores…”
There used to be a cool four to five-story office building on this lot. but no more. Some demolition companies reduces/returns the lots in state that would inspire guys like Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Richard Long.
So Monday ight, I took this a few images on this lot, located near Morningside(a Miami neighborhood).
I stumbled upon a book discussing Eugene Atget and his photographs, at the library. The Miami Beach regional branch of the library is very nice. Many of the books on the shelf are still new.
Atget’s photographs of Parisian street scenes are very intriguing. Apparently, they are his most ‘famous’ images. Atget seem to have capture the city’s stillness and poise; the moment before the city is fully awake and engaged. I can image his routine which would lead him and his camera on a sineous path throughout Paris; chasing the light, attuned to the moment and poise to capture the next shot.
Here are two images, probably shot the same day( at least the same year, 1924). The websites that I snatched these images from are calling the building in the background “the parthenon.”
Correction: I misidentified the building in the imgaes as the ‘parthenon,’ it’s clearly identified as the ‘pantheon’. My architectural education didn’t thoroughly cover France of the 18th century; though, it did introduced me the works of Boullee, Ledoux and Lequec. Pantheon to me refers to a Roman temple, but it makes total sense that in the Neoclassical period that a building partly modelled on the Roman Pantheon would be designed and build in Paris. It pretty much functionned as a temple of great men of France–serving as a burial place to Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Dumas and the Curies(Marie being the first woman buried there).
On my way home, post-Moore Space and post-studio, I stop downtown for a little while. I had not taken any pictures of the new arena. I am not totally happy with these. I’ll have to go back.
There was a fight on the street out my house. It involved students of Coral Gables Senior High and the police. At one point, it looked like it could have escaladed to something more. The students on the street objected to the treatment and arrest of another student. And they voiced their opinioned; and some even engaged the cops. The kids didn’t show any fear for the authorities. There wasn’t any news organization on the scene. They arrived after the dust settled; a police officer stated what happen and Oscar was interviewed. I beleive Oscar.
When I finally got to the studio. I did some work and went for a walk. I found nice things.
A nice collection of objects that started me thinking about installation works which contain drawing, photographs and found objects.
I am going to be in a show next week at The Moore Space. The exhibition is called Metro Pictures. Here is a preview:
.jpg "detail from untitled(here and there) 2006, exhibited at The Moore Space.")
I have added a new page to this blog called studio. It should reflect experimentations and endeavours from my studio practice.
