…will be the site of the upcoming ‘Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics‘ – which will be perched on the southwest terrace – and with 24 hours in town I have the chance to check out our future digs, make plans, and meet with some local friends who will be involved, including one friend of ..

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…the Dutch artist from Rotterdam joined curator Gabi Ngcobo and me for a public chat tonight hosted by the Liverpool Biennial, which was a good chance to get to know her and her work, including an inspiring series of projects in the local neighborhood of Anfield (famous for it’s Liverpool team football stadium, and rows ..

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…were the highlights of my Liverpool visit – so happy find committed sophisticated organized energetic local partners to hopefully collaborate with on the upcoming work here, with the National Wildflower Centre and it’s beautiful fields, gardens and installations surrounding a smartly designed long modern structure topped with a wildflower path, and the Squash Nutrition food ..

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…or crater, or hollow, or dell, or valley, or however we will be calling it, is the newly selected site of what will hopefully be an ambitious long-term project I’ll start this spring – commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial – to start imagining a transformation of the park in collaboration with local partners and residents ..

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…is the beautifully warm-colored soft-textured stone that comes up with almost every shovel and trowel on my hill, which I covered my roof with as it was coming up from the ground in my early gardening days here – and these days re-working the land I first worked a decade ago, I’m making new terraced ..

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…from a wild climbing rose bush (which has surprisingly thrived as a neglected castaway – who knows how it got there – in a hidden overgrown corner of the garden where it is scrambling over some chain link and sending out runners) are drying on a favored Richard Bresnehan pottery plate, sending out good smells, ..

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…replaced gardening this morning as I was reconfiguring the back corner of the garden, moving dirt around, re-grading, making a new terraced area on the site of what must have been the former trash incinerator for the big old 1920’s Spanish style house behind me – and what came up with each new shovel of ..

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…from London via Human Resources (where the rest of the pieces were ceremoniously trashed and trampled) were placed in their new home today (the long abandoned, recently refurbished redwood dog run enclosure – now outdoor sculpture gallery) with artist friend Jedediah Caesar – who came over to help situate the pieces, which will be installed ..

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…that under-rated Chinese fruit is starting to turn soft and yellow on the tree hidden at the top of the garden (planted in 2006, originally part of the Edible Estate #2: Los Angeles HQ installation at Machine Project) which never fails to give me an annual late-winter peachy, citrusy, mango-like surprise.(..

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…was a jolt to the eyes on a hot bright midday lunch excursion to Forage today, coming upon the brand new street-to-plaza conversion at this very familiar intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Maltman – just down the hill from my first L.A. home from 1999-2000, and the location of my favored Saturday farmers market – ..

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