…’strings of paper flags with kaleidoscope cut-outs used as festive decorations throughout Mexico…traced back to the Aztecs’ hand made by Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca with local stalks of flax was the ceiling-hanging/covering highlight of Dosa’s installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art opening l..
…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..
…photos just received from the Liverpool Biennial team show that the meadow is growing in, through which the spiraling paths and central gathering circle are being mown, and the wild foragables are gradually filling in after lots and lots of rain…
…back after a few months away, happy to home in California which always put those Joni Mitchell words through my mind…Oh California I’m coming home, Oh make me feel good rock ‘n’ roll band, I’m your biggest fan, California I’m coming h..
…from Rome to L.A. was only part of a much longer day, starting with getting in a car at the Pollinaria farm in Abruzzo at 1am to a Fiumicino bound bus in Pescara and ending with a long meeting and dinner at the Hammer Museum in Westwood right off the plane, followed by immediate collapse ..
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did by necessity, to contain everything that needed containing at home (ricotta, figs, olives, grain…) – but then he entered into the family’s farming life – went to ..
…is the annual traditional meal here at Pollinaria farm when all of the grain harvest workers involved in the two-day operation on these hundred acres gather with their family for a celebration feast that overwhelmed us with course after course after course after course after course, including unmentionable meats unappealing to this vegan – but luckily just ripe ..
…consumed most of this very hot day in this cool moist rocky valley stream (found after a three hour drive the other day in search of the perfect place to bring our 80 sheeps-worth of filthy but gorgeous just shorn raw wool for washing al fresco, which proved difficult during these semi-drought conditions of no rainfall ..
…of Mauro Di Rico have been grazing here at Pollinaria this season, and with the prices that he can get for their wool way down, he has offered it all to us, in the service of making the Abruzzian ring of the Domestic Integrity Field rug (started in Budapest, then London, and a few days ago at the ..
…was the first stop this afternoon from Fiumicino where I was picked up by my friend Marco (who had been involved with the rooftop Edible Estate at SALT in Istanbul) where it was gratifying to see the garden welcomed and cared for at it’s new community center home (for local residents, unemployed, and immigrants – ..
…this evening started with me baking 24 loaves of spelt bread, out of the oven in time to be ceremoniously placed on a prominent table in the central atrium to cool under a white linen while I presented a talk about the new project series, at the conclusion of which the bread was processed out ..
…in an apartment within the museum complex is pretty cushy in slick modular mobile modern open plan digs overlooking and collecting cool breezes from the Stadtpark below, and getting ready for an event tomorrow night involving Europe Domestic Integrity Field production in the garden accompanied by drummers and 12 loaves of my special spelt bread that I’ll be baking right before my ..
…kept me busy for most of the night and morning making my way from Mildred’s Lane in rural Pennsylvania to Vienna, via a ride from friends to Penn Station, a LIRR train to Jamaica, an Airtrain to Terminal 2, a plane to CDG, a 35 minute walk to the connecting gate, to Vienna on another ..
…is a lovely open-door semi-weekly summer tradition here, starting with an elaborate ‘hooshed‘ meal al fresco somewhere on the grounds followed by a fire and then gathering to hear visiting artists talk in the barn – an ideal place to talk about Domestic Integrities tonight – where a highly evolved and conscientious domestic behavior is ..
….got it’s auspicious start yesterday here at Mildred’s Lane – where I have returned for the weekend after an inspiring visit two years ago – to kick of the American edition of Domestic Integrities, which will expand as it travels the continent, exhibited from place to place (first up MoMA in September, The Hammer Museum ..
…for a few days began this afternoon pulling into the bucolic scene in rural Pennsylvania, just over the Delaware River and the New York state border, where J. Morgan Puett, along with Mark Dion, have managed create an idealist alternative communal living environment/school/artist residency/think-tank/community center. (website) MILDRED’S LANE is a rustic, 96-acre site deep in ..
…this steamy hot morning with Annie Novak (of Growing Chefs and Eagle Street Rooftop Farm) and the youthful energetic Williamsburg gardening squad from Roberta’s Garden – is comprised of a 10′ diameter circular mounded planting bed of medicinals, herbals, edibles, and plants for pollinators along with locally scavenged branches and boulders from McEnroe Organic Farm ..
…this evening after 24 hours checking in on the homefront, and now headed ‘back east’ as they refer to it here ‘out west’ to New York City where I’ll be planting a big round wild edible medicinal herbal pollinator attractor garden (with plants and dirt from McEnroe Organic Farm and the amazing Annie Novak of ..
…by Peter Rednour, a regular visitor to our Hayward Gallery rooftop schoolhouse this week, carefully captures the details of life in the dome this week, with the bright spirally rug in the center and when we finally get around to making our book on this queer month-long school, this drawing will be sure to grace ..
…by Mertle (performance artist, Caroline Smith) part of a day of activities organized by Avant Gardening on the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics terrace was the appropriate culmination of a week of heavy programming and lots of visitors in the dome – with a sunny break in the bleak weather allowing us some last ..
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