ephemeral images from my parisphere
[and other oblique spheres...]
Monday, April 2, 2012
moooi beauuutiful
the precarious hijinks of higher dutch design perch willy-nilly in a sunstrewn whiteout wonderland...
the big black horses tethered at the entrance flicker their halos but never did whinnny...
paris perishable paris imperfect paris intangible paris irreverent paris raw poetry paris in passing...
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*NEW BOOK::Paris Primitif with a selection of images and text from this blog to reflect the quirky and intimate side of the Paris I know... it is available through the blurb bookstore and can be previewed here:: www.blurb.ca/user/store/gverster
*NEWER BOOK:: BARCELONA PRIMITIVA a photo-essay book depicting the older and newer layers of Barcelona, from the provocatively primitive to the radically elegant, from the rapturous Casa Batllo to the cerebral Pavello Mies van der Rohe, all aglow in shades of barça blanca... it is available through the blurb bookstore and can be previewed here:: www.blurb.ca/user/store/gverster
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Week 35: the death of an English clown
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100 years ago this week: Week 35Looking back a century can sometimes take
you even further into the past. The death of one of the best known clowns
in Fran...
elefancentric copenhagen
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Oddly, elephant sightings are more frequent than you would think in the
cool nordic climes of Copenhagen!
There are moving, breathing ones in their own "h...
"Célestins"
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The “Caserne des Célestins” is where you find the headquarters of the
“Garde Républicaine”. Passing by the other day, I was struck by the
extraordinary d...
Art for heart's sake
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Art is a haven because it is the best humans can do.
It heals the soul because it is an act of gratuitous love.
The best of human endeavour consoles...
once a home...
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they perch on sites worth so many millions
above spanish banks and the burrard inlet -
these three modest pseudo-mansions of the
last century now looking...
Sonneveld House
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*Sonneveld House *
oil and pencil on beechwood panel;
30 x 22.5 cm
*Sonneveld House (E. view)*
oil and pencil on beechwood panel;
22.5 x 30 cm
the air is still blue
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I had borrowed a book, “the air is blue – Insights on art & architecture:
LUIS BARRAGAN REVISITED” and kept it for months, going through it randomly
at the...
les petites assiettes
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[speaking of plates, mine has been rather full this summer, therefore have
been a little distracted from posting regularly...but I will make more of
an eff...
Delight and Liberty*
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Whenever I return to France, the first day of my Paris Love-Fest is always
a little out of this world. If the skies are clear I will spot the Eiffel
Tower ...
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