LAJKO VISITS CALDER.

The incredibly inspiring online Smithsonian archives feature Alexander Calder‘s mobiles, marionettes, papers and along with photographs of his sweet robust self. Posted below are friendly directions Calder renders for Marcel Beurer aka. Lajko who studied and taught at Bauhaus. Primary colored lines decipher roads and path to follow. Below the directions are Lajko’s concrete mess [...]

ELBOWS.

Jack Delano Backstage at the”girlie” show at the Vermont State Fair1914 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 1931 Ruth St. Denis in The Yogi 1906-07 Curtis Moffat Nude About 1925-1930

PATTERN CHILDREN.

Repeats. Patterns on textiles, walls covering children. Bright colors and messy hair. I love the hand painted signs above the stage, the cardboard boxlike interiors of Pie Town, NM and the little birdies at the birthday party. School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico Paul [...]

PLAY BICYCLES.

I am reading Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults by Steve Allen. So far the book (up to page 63) is mostly the musings on the life of Steve Allen—married at 21, three kids, late night radio show in Hollywood, adultery, moved to NYC, television show, divorced 1st wife, married Jayne Meadows—with little [...]

SWIM METALS.

Lily Smith. She swims rough seas. She wears metals. Stunning. New York Times. 1912.

DL.

The trees, the color, the texture. Oh my. Dorothy Liebes was a textile designer. Dorothy Liebes., ca. 1948.

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