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[and other oblique spheres...]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-62975715509507307402013-09-18T11:38:00.000-07:002013-09-18T11:38:27.119-07:00BARCELONA PRIMITIVA book<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #783f04;">my new 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...</span><br />
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Graçias/Merci/Thank you!<br />
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Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-57988782223812230262013-01-06T10:40:00.000-08:002013-09-18T11:40:07.350-07:00paris primitif BOOK<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;">my absence from posting on this blog for the last little while has been justified</span> <span style="color: #660000;">by the creation</span> <span style="color: #660000;">of a book that I have recently self-published on blurb </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">the book <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">paris primitif</span></span></span> is comprised of a selection of the more compelling images and text from this blog and rearranged in intriguing pairings!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">it is available for sale from the blurb bookstore and can be previewed in its entirety <a href="http://www.blurb.ca/bookstore/detail/3959918">here</a></span><br />
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[please feel free to forward this link to anyone you know who might be interested - I know, not another <u></u>book on Paris!]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-56427408723013378652012-06-29T10:40:00.000-07:002012-06-29T10:40:39.627-07:00letterlitter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sometimes words just drop away and lie in a confused jumble on the lower consonant level...</div>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">then contritely whisper back a spare constellation of bareback alphabets...</span>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-51428343544642030772012-06-25T11:01:00.000-07:002012-06-25T11:03:21.054-07:00puffluff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the old michelinman huffs and puffs along to fill up on air that is almost free...<br />
in copenhagen, 1 krone buys you nothing else...Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-50862808224354888842012-06-11T11:22:00.000-07:002012-06-11T11:22:37.053-07:00dutchinese<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">my half dutch/half chinese world transposed to an amsterdam chinatown where all the made in china bicycles feel at home but may not park themselves here...</span>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-54329800963230054602012-05-21T11:32:00.001-07:002012-05-21T11:57:18.823-07:00mecheeseca<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Souci Souris was wearily trekking along on her pilgrimage to a fabled Land of Holy Dairy when one day she looked up and knew she was finally at the Temple of the Golden Wheels of the Sacred Kaas...</div>
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leaving her own Land of Blessed Frommage, she had hoped to discover fresh flavours and experience less complicated favours in this other ancient cheese mecca, but soon realized that she needed to go home again to more familiar tastes...</div>
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[a birthday homage to G-M T-Rat and his obsessive delight in the unpasteurized camembert that he gets to gnaw on every enlightened day in F-land!] <br />
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<br />Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-50163884021379884142012-05-08T07:52:00.000-07:002012-05-08T07:52:37.564-07:00rietveld's ringer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">the attention to details is astoundingly meticulous within and without this structural paean to De Stilj principles...</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rietveld rang Mevrouw Schroder's bell and a multi-faceted jewel of a house was birthed in this windblown land of geometrical profundity...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">Utrecht </span> </span>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-75659638747527431292012-04-28T13:44:00.000-07:002012-04-28T13:44:24.344-07:00elefantile love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the elefantile order of danish draft...<br />
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the elefantile command of teutonic rank...<br />
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the olifantile rite of dutch ordinance...<br />
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the big black horses tethered at the entrance flicker their halos but never did whinnny...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763;">the images float in two dimensional insouciance in a room demarcated with large angled swathes of heavy blues...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763;">the young dutch snapmeister commands his place in a lofty canalhouse museum with the formidable consideration of his inert antecedents</span>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I looked up and was startled by the "face" this building was making at me - cross-eyed with tongue sticking out - somewhat comically rude, and yet so adroitly executed with the brick and tile patterning on the protruding shapes, the angled placement of the "eyes" windows and the keystone "tongue" hanging down above the entrance doorways...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">adorning the facade of <a href="http://www.hetschip.nl/"><b>Het Schip </b></a>built in the late 1920's by Michel de Klerk of the Amsterdam School, celebrated for its expressionistic use of materials and forms...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-50782267507617327122012-03-05T12:26:00.000-08:002012-03-05T12:26:47.011-08:00Vorhangeschlosser der Liebe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0cB-MMeIBIQA57hUX6TAh0IaGVq6q9wwY6kV64ZbjSvyjyBEx9Uq-i-uCwF9LN50h_x5MvMZur5hY_6RS7RtC8y3LLlG7UwsTtHr-DXsGE9omHeqTG918dgPBm12HriLdhyphenhyphenFDAVrHqLs/s1600/lovelocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0cB-MMeIBIQA57hUX6TAh0IaGVq6q9wwY6kV64ZbjSvyjyBEx9Uq-i-uCwF9LN50h_x5MvMZur5hY_6RS7RtC8y3LLlG7UwsTtHr-DXsGE9omHeqTG918dgPBm12HriLdhyphenhyphenFDAVrHqLs/s400/lovelocks.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">a cluster of colour coded metal locks holding on for dear life - throw away the keys into the murky canal conceding eternal love on this very pedestrian of bridges...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">lacking a cheap padlock, a red ribbon will do - or even a most unwieldy tire lock device... [as clunky as the german translation for such cluttery lovelocks]</div>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-45935754654951341322012-02-27T10:51:00.000-08:002012-02-27T10:51:26.038-08:00frau blaumanita<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDess1YL5pY-k2srOj2yN3VcZb-zRETrW8NF9xkyXWGlVPIpeJkbIkqdt9CHxdbgttAEY2VV1oqZNs1q0DZ7EHt4NJ0-EtEKhTYjJR2sldtVGt_3cQg9ZKuLLyPDtBq6B_J3ZLI_IBHo/s1600/brickwall+mosaic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDess1YL5pY-k2srOj2yN3VcZb-zRETrW8NF9xkyXWGlVPIpeJkbIkqdt9CHxdbgttAEY2VV1oqZNs1q0DZ7EHt4NJ0-EtEKhTYjJR2sldtVGt_3cQg9ZKuLLyPDtBq6B_J3ZLI_IBHo/s400/brickwall+mosaic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
the freakish amalgamation of a toxic fungus cap onto a XX chromosomal humanoid...<br />
or perhaps just an oversized fanciful hat crowning a lovely girl on her way to the park...Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-14146891872109367462012-02-20T12:04:00.000-08:002012-02-20T12:04:09.209-08:00glaube an den Schuhmacher...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNV6hocEHzeveD9J9RyU5GyWaG_w2_k7r2ksWS58HArLk3hoOXkpOD2bmqFfnlYkaGmDMCSBMqF_jMf8_BXYeAAD3i32j1au8w1G7X-a78GcCB7cMC702PyEheMgLKYnXdFXE6AS5DJY/s1600/hamburg+shoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNV6hocEHzeveD9J9RyU5GyWaG_w2_k7r2ksWS58HArLk3hoOXkpOD2bmqFfnlYkaGmDMCSBMqF_jMf8_BXYeAAD3i32j1au8w1G7X-a78GcCB7cMC702PyEheMgLKYnXdFXE6AS5DJY/s640/hamburg+shoes.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br />
[in the window of the workshop of <a href="http://www.klemann-shoes.com/">bespoke shoemaker Benjamin Klemann</a> in Hamburg]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-73649631346109849542012-02-13T09:53:00.000-08:002012-02-13T09:58:15.121-08:00swedeheart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNcoU74SdJmPXfyZ2GVy1uA0a7Q17ucOKiu2Vw1WbN_ypcOwyolfXKi1LPB5DnCbQRPhmTj3Y6NT8GwsUmCRggkAleJZ9XG2qAxJ89vLdrD4EsegAGU2FRPR52jWy1DHfIqwnWZPOgGk/s1600/swedeheart2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNcoU74SdJmPXfyZ2GVy1uA0a7Q17ucOKiu2Vw1WbN_ypcOwyolfXKi1LPB5DnCbQRPhmTj3Y6NT8GwsUmCRggkAleJZ9XG2qAxJ89vLdrD4EsegAGU2FRPR52jWy1DHfIqwnWZPOgGk/s640/swedeheart2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #660000; text-align: center;">walked along the antipoetic wall...</div><div style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #660000; text-align: center;">it is easy to love fragments that have been on the way a long time...</div><div style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #660000; text-align: center;">feel the smell of truth...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #660000;">the poem which is completely possible...*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*selected cryptic lines from 'Hommages' by Tomas TRANSTROMER (translated from the swedish by Robin Fulton) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-87003827466488408432012-02-08T09:27:00.000-08:002012-02-08T09:27:08.778-08:00wisewabbits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn51HiU-4Kdwz-0n2cFASZrQsGvFSbKz0PBi0QthvOuusOmpmcpujA2urlWA5Wwog-LmWRRc-TAf6na4PmUm1RGGLsb0Wbn-Dywo2GglX4G_Bguon4DMxXZbBwKv1O9wwnlXft-VNfiXk/s1600/cop+bunny1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn51HiU-4Kdwz-0n2cFASZrQsGvFSbKz0PBi0QthvOuusOmpmcpujA2urlWA5Wwog-LmWRRc-TAf6na4PmUm1RGGLsb0Wbn-Dywo2GglX4G_Bguon4DMxXZbBwKv1O9wwnlXft-VNfiXk/s400/cop+bunny1.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0HZsJx_4_k76yY3PwwSwOd3wt1SU6qSTtBlx8W9Emte2xDBKPP5hXMGsczR6J6eTceZ6hkIbX4LF54SAcH57iC2vHNOubpEJXvCSSDads-JOxvM6mouIkiMcDJYvBLuZEP2hqfjG9zE/s1600/cop+bunny2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0HZsJx_4_k76yY3PwwSwOd3wt1SU6qSTtBlx8W9Emte2xDBKPP5hXMGsczR6J6eTceZ6hkIbX4LF54SAcH57iC2vHNOubpEJXvCSSDads-JOxvM6mouIkiMcDJYvBLuZEP2hqfjG9zE/s400/cop+bunny2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-41959499261075315562012-01-27T10:26:00.000-08:002012-01-27T10:26:52.035-08:00pinkbottleblob<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o6i0mpgRcUcnKKpf183RGr26a1n20bWHPqlF4qP8U0gSHK958x3rKZEtIwbjyFrQxrR-OI_ThTzKlm4pPh1p-D6u1NDk7fO1TVLLposrrLIFcJGON_KIcmZh29RUMRjVWTZBk16HxhY/s1600/bottleblob.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o6i0mpgRcUcnKKpf183RGr26a1n20bWHPqlF4qP8U0gSHK958x3rKZEtIwbjyFrQxrR-OI_ThTzKlm4pPh1p-D6u1NDk7fO1TVLLposrrLIFcJGON_KIcmZh29RUMRjVWTZBk16HxhY/s400/bottleblob.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #c27ba0;">a salacious sea creature...a gigantic squeak toy...a rare and exotic flowerhead...a pretty party-dressed mine...</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">this vivacious vandal's delight squats benignly on the sidewalk, unperturbed by the passing feral urges to kick at its protuberant presence...</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-40279950073651472552012-01-20T13:32:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:41:54.712-08:00BIGness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitEu9Tg9ZJF73kKw9SiofDseBI8L0dNjZZoZrhtamgK-YTtciCm5exDgNw5F2_z_b3oOn3Tr9UQLjhnrjIvAFou-Gie7VKwy5WjrBNmfnfe6qNxobTSXAgKCDGTpd_hf4LsUUGWaMBtW8/s1600/BIG+bldg.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitEu9Tg9ZJF73kKw9SiofDseBI8L0dNjZZoZrhtamgK-YTtciCm5exDgNw5F2_z_b3oOn3Tr9UQLjhnrjIvAFou-Gie7VKwy5WjrBNmfnfe6qNxobTSXAgKCDGTpd_hf4LsUUGWaMBtW8/s640/BIG+bldg.JPG" width="448" /></a></div>a roomful of <a href="http://www.big.dk/">BIG [Bjarke Ingels Group]</a> hyper-innovative projects on exhibit was a sumptuous architectural feast...<br />
the immaculate maquette for the sleek-peaked <b>WEST 57th</b> apartment building in New York soaring aerodynamically towards the ceiling - this sharp-edgy pyramidal superstructure soon to grace the Hudson riverfront...<br />
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[part of the Frontiers of Architecture series of exhibits at the <a href="http://www.louisiana.dk/">Louisiana Museum of Modern Art</a>, Humlebaek, Denmark]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-84016677898789027502012-01-12T13:41:00.000-08:002012-01-12T13:41:12.549-08:00swede boy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYupiREQPA8NVPJQOvqZKK0TdRKI3ys1V8jjIuIw4mWys6hITy9ero8cWFFUb7gT7YtsK-8dnd35LirvErEq_-29ItvbEv7KiUVMXa2xuzgaf0G7pq6nR-YamVPd0ZETgBm5WgxyvM__U/s1600/vem+ska.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYupiREQPA8NVPJQOvqZKK0TdRKI3ys1V8jjIuIw4mWys6hITy9ero8cWFFUb7gT7YtsK-8dnd35LirvErEq_-29ItvbEv7KiUVMXa2xuzgaf0G7pq6nR-YamVPd0ZETgBm5WgxyvM__U/s400/vem+ska.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>the tyroboy looks me in the eye<br />
with raised fists and taunting mouth...<br />
the tornout words do not tell me anything - I am guessing they are not gentle...<br />
I pass them by, I turn back - he is still challenging me...<br />
the fledgling alpha round with this freshface minimenace - the futilefight is on...Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-21580546025679934452011-12-30T10:04:00.000-08:002011-12-30T10:04:14.070-08:00paris mirage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooaXXisndQtfXwlx71B-BKnXCS72TzOHZ8ISLtVX6giZb35NUglQIq-GFOV9VbP9h9NJb1hbbrJIh230pAtbiNoO6dhQyIvns1R2boZB-FVjnvwLZ1Ly3DpDzv9XphzqVjg9KkjKyixI/s1600/antiqueheavens.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooaXXisndQtfXwlx71B-BKnXCS72TzOHZ8ISLtVX6giZb35NUglQIq-GFOV9VbP9h9NJb1hbbrJIh230pAtbiNoO6dhQyIvns1R2boZB-FVjnvwLZ1Ly3DpDzv9XphzqVjg9KkjKyixI/s400/antiqueheavens.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;">the sentimental skies of a paris spring beckon - pierced with antique crosses, the tall iron maid, the tricolour pride...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;">the years dwindle, the moss darkens on stones forgotten, the metal corrodes, and the flag frays - and yet...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b>"dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b>deux spectres ont évoqué le passé.</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b>-te souviens-tu de notre extase ancienne?</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b>-pourquoi voulez-vous donc qu'il m'en souvienne?</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; color: #4c1130; text-align: center;"><i><b>-qu'il était beau le ciel, et grand, l'espoir!..."</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">[selected lines from "Colloque Sentimentale" by Paul VERLAINE (1844-96)]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-46925466519170999382011-12-16T20:49:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:55:34.698-08:00on skeppsholmen...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN882Ynbikb68JX3fWifu9kS5tApVrG_JTb7ow3TyOoyUgf6LxjXgfxCnTnt-m215VvKV44CkZd8Ih6laEZh6bethnWwRqH_H1K4y2cNjCtsWAcIeUo1qmZ6XHEE1LUnytjqH2jL83IK4/s1600/skeppsholmen.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN882Ynbikb68JX3fWifu9kS5tApVrG_JTb7ow3TyOoyUgf6LxjXgfxCnTnt-m215VvKV44CkZd8Ih6laEZh6bethnWwRqH_H1K4y2cNjCtsWAcIeUo1qmZ6XHEE1LUnytjqH2jL83IK4/s400/skeppsholmen.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>they march no more down these halls - the young swedes of a naval order...<br />
outside, the dark trees shield the statues low and the tall ships...<br />
they see a light on - the light that casts shadowlinks in a tight room...<br />
a hollow box, a fulfilled sack - the season's ending in a corner...<br />
the solstice is rounding up, the days lengthening -<br />
and so begins the music again...<br />
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[at the <a href="http://www.hotelskeppsholmen.com/">Hotel Skeppsholmen</a>, Stockholm, Sweden]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-81250633731630013332011-12-10T17:45:00.000-08:002012-01-27T09:45:10.702-08:00swede abstraction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyceOV0N6n4tS2vpc05tVQwBWHCmX7CRUYP7ZbmjacnqniXIt8P84DBe_hVjlmj4gp8gJom30U2T38RQ5ipFsMjvBIJZOkLzG4axf0s7B-awj0kN505z-IhMIJL7IyReizy8TX9rZrPI/s1600/swede+abstract.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyceOV0N6n4tS2vpc05tVQwBWHCmX7CRUYP7ZbmjacnqniXIt8P84DBe_hVjlmj4gp8gJom30U2T38RQ5ipFsMjvBIJZOkLzG4axf0s7B-awj0kN505z-IhMIJL7IyReizy8TX9rZrPI/s400/swede+abstract.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>the detrital conflation of peeling paint and sprayed symbols, of pasted notices and torn images, of flaking glue and dried spit - presents an accumulative reading as complex as an archaeological dig, a vertical congregation of visual strife as dissonant as a Twombly passage...<br />
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["Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings" at the <a href="http://www.modernamuseet.se/">Moderna Museet</a>, Stockholm from October 8 to January 15, 2012]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-27585155356666196812011-12-01T21:38:00.000-08:002011-12-02T08:37:21.790-08:00thinktanker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9V1ld-PRU2adPuZ1INd_tjY7Y6AgMsL6rVkU0RdBnu_WdXKQzjNEFJ7hPxxUY29z2xrGF4Mjm0A05StTAtCitJLzDy46MwcdOnn5bbl3NsXp2HJmsy51DB5X0bL22PAM0Fhx5ZFYRYdE/s1600/jag+tanker+att.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9V1ld-PRU2adPuZ1INd_tjY7Y6AgMsL6rVkU0RdBnu_WdXKQzjNEFJ7hPxxUY29z2xrGF4Mjm0A05StTAtCitJLzDy46MwcdOnn5bbl3NsXp2HJmsy51DB5X0bL22PAM0Fhx5ZFYRYdE/s400/jag+tanker+att.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">jag tanker att...jag tanker...tror jag.../lois</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjbIzM976gRDbDoti1NCN3S4V-_41IXuEzQIBygCE5JWJmBCDCjpRSxUWvH7X_7iPtZey5adrwZN5UQOOrhAfgjZ9Lovmszx_sm7dLCohFT60ADTlzuNYPVy593ndmaSwBMBEgGnex8Y/s1600/jag+tanker.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjbIzM976gRDbDoti1NCN3S4V-_41IXuEzQIBygCE5JWJmBCDCjpRSxUWvH7X_7iPtZey5adrwZN5UQOOrhAfgjZ9Lovmszx_sm7dLCohFT60ADTlzuNYPVy593ndmaSwBMBEgGnex8Y/s400/jag+tanker.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>think...thinking...thoughts...<br />
he paid a penny for her thoughts...<br />
she was thinking of someone else...Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-62477156849960241642011-11-27T11:16:00.000-08:002011-11-30T09:32:17.682-08:00blindcouplebluff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuuGLi3C7wR65SottZpBJLL-k3qKLFSWHAGI1KM_xEz8OXKpS0AOvjrR83NYMDari8QbyLg24mKcmY-rrW-rnol3awTdLd48sSpxciDD-a4s2536yALoEIEM4-i9AIwZ3AwmWGUpZ3Ag/s1600/barnen+ar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuuGLi3C7wR65SottZpBJLL-k3qKLFSWHAGI1KM_xEz8OXKpS0AOvjrR83NYMDari8QbyLg24mKcmY-rrW-rnol3awTdLd48sSpxciDD-a4s2536yALoEIEM4-i9AIwZ3AwmWGUpZ3Ag/s400/barnen+ar.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #999999; text-align: center;">"...their most secret thoughts meet as when two colours meet and flow into each other on the wet paper of a schoolboy's painting..."</div><br />
[excerpted from 'The Couple' by Tomas Transtromer, the Swedish poet awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature - finally! - (from 'The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations' by Robert Bly, 2004)]<br />
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[on a divider wall outside of Goteborg, Sweden]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065523396491950813.post-25467453007188212292011-11-14T16:04:00.000-08:002012-01-27T09:47:31.866-08:00metal-liturgy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-dNnOgD0K0W8kTVpWRCHAgBB9Fv-JGH3ifq4HBgfxyGUdFinys5sfb4Gym2kJWOi9Tgmk7xqLuhszJPL790kswIdHwhbG42vmfihf0HgN9VAn9x2au71MpwTImVK99fbXwekrOLgZ3g/s1600/morellet%2527s+sphere.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-dNnOgD0K0W8kTVpWRCHAgBB9Fv-JGH3ifq4HBgfxyGUdFinys5sfb4Gym2kJWOi9Tgmk7xqLuhszJPL790kswIdHwhbG42vmfihf0HgN9VAn9x2au71MpwTImVK99fbXwekrOLgZ3g/s400/morellet%2527s+sphere.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> the french artist Francois Morellet's inter-locking stick metal "Sphere" [1962] floats in one corner - a primitive steel hive model for a futuristic orbiting space habitat...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7py0DO-_hnVKH8jZjNfixsiD5xZG-Gka90KL4WZZ-TSCQn_YI7JjukIcrmtpXKztxYsz3hcJHZxa_OOpQ0YN6-NyXFbCJ2J__rcrn5IcFc3MWVIMDDe5_uXnwOcr5tFyc263Q6rlxjgY/s1600/uecker%2527s+white+field.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7py0DO-_hnVKH8jZjNfixsiD5xZG-Gka90KL4WZZ-TSCQn_YI7JjukIcrmtpXKztxYsz3hcJHZxa_OOpQ0YN6-NyXFbCJ2J__rcrn5IcFc3MWVIMDDe5_uXnwOcr5tFyc263Q6rlxjgY/s400/uecker%2527s+white+field.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>the german artist Gunther Uecker's "White Field" [1983] of swirling nails maps the galaxies in a square studded universe - where man can orbit only on the minutest speck of iron dust...<br />
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[both pieces are exhibited at the <a href="http://www.louisiana.dk/">Louisiana Museum of Modern Art</a> in Humlebaek, Danmark]Gina Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03646101640191804629noreply@blogger.com1