On July 16th, 2012, PAPEL PICADO…
…’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…
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On July 15th, 2012, THE VENICE BEACH BIENNIAL…
…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,…
On July 11th, 2012, LIVERPOOL FORAGING SPIRAL PROGRESS…
…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…
On July 10th, 2012, SUNSET LA WELCOME…
…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…
On July 9th, 2012, FCO>LAX…
…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…
On July 3rd, 2012, A WICKER BASKET WEAVER…
…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…
On July 2nd, 2012, TREBBIATURA DINNER…
…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…
On July 1st, 2012, WASHING OF THE WOOL…
…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…
On August 30th, 2012, THE 80 SHEEP…
…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…
On June 27th, 2012, ROMAN EDIBLE ESTATE PROGRESS AT EX-SNIA…
…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…
On June 26th, 2012, EUROPEAN DOMESTIC INTEGRITY FIELD AT THE VIENNA MAK…
…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…
On June 25th, 2012, STAYING AT THE MAK IN VIENNA…
…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…
On June 24th, 2012, FLYING AND RE-KNITTING…
…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…
On July 23rd, MILDRED’S LANE SOCIAL SATURDAY…
…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…
On June 22nd, 2012, THE AMERICAN DOMESTIC INTEGRITY FIELD RUG…
….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…
On June 21st, A MILDRED’S LANE VISIT…
…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.…
On June 20th, 2012, PLANTING DOMESTIC INTEGRITY FIELD GARDEN AT MOMA…
…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…
On June 19th, 2012, FLYING OVER THE DOME…
…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…
On June 18th, 2012, A QUEER HOME EC INTERIOR DRAWING…
…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…
On June 17th, 2012, A BUTOH CLEANSING RITUAL…
…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…