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Month: January 2008

  • Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection (1-5)

    Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection (1-5)

    Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection #1, Jan 2008 Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection #2, Jan 2008 Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection #3, Jan 2008 Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection #4, Jan 2008 Chairs Not in the High Museum Collection #5, Jan 2008 H.o.p., by the way, had…

  • SOFA NOT IN THE HIGH COLLECTION (1-7)

    SOFA NOT IN THE HIGH COLLECTION (1-7)

    Sofa not in the High Museum Collection, Series 1-7 This series of photos was H.o.p’s idea. Sofa Not in the High Collection #1, 2008 Jan Sofa Not in the High Collection #2, 2008 Jan Sofa Not in the High Collection #3, 2008 Jan Sofa Not in the High Collection #4, 2008 Jan Sofa Not in…

  • Things Not Apparent to the Eye

    Things Not Apparent to the Eye

    Rest Area, December, 2007 During our December trip, H.o.p. met this little girl at a rest stop and they played together a while. She was living out of the car with her family on the way from a failed life out west to hopes of finding a better life and work in the northeast. H.o.p.…

  • Monteverdi's Orfeo

    How I came across Marilia Vargas was looking up Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” at Youtube. “Mom, look up some opera for me,” H.o.p. said. He meant something like Mozart’s “Requiem” but he’s never seen Ponnelle’s 1978 staging of “Orfeo”. Instead I found clips from the Jordi Savall/Brian Large 2002 production. The opening is promising… Marilia Vargas as…

  • H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA

    H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA

    H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA View On White Another version, before I photoshopped out a woman. But I rather like this one as well. View On White

  • Just Became Aware of Marilia Vargas This Morning…

    Marilia Vargas singing Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilerias No. 5. To listen is to breathe more deeply, it is that affecting. Vargas’ voice strikes me as alternative, faithful yet modern, and I’m not even sure yet how so. Something in her expressiveness that is as open to the concert hall as the corner food mart, as…

  • Infinite Compassion

    Infinite Compassion

    Standing Bodhisattva, MMoA, 2007 View On White Bodhisattva, MMoA View On White Subhutti: Is it at all possible, O Lord, to hear the perfection of wisdom, to distinguish and consider her, to make statements and to reflect about her? Can one explain, or learn, that because of certain attributes, tokens or signs this is the…

  • Heavy Metal Fashion

    Heavy Metal Fashion

    Fashion! Fashion! Fashion! At MMoA, we spent a good portion of time in the Knights in Shining Armor galleries, H.o.p. ogling metal and me taking dozens of photos for him since he’s been knight crazy for a year and I knew he’d want to be able to later study the different styles of armor…which is…

  • MOMA, Giant Soft Fan

    MOMA, Giant Soft Fan

    MOMA, Giant Soft Fan 2007 December, H.o.p. marvels over Oldenburg’s Giant Soft Fan. He says it was his favorite thing at MoMA. View On White

  • MOMA Sculpture Garden

    MOMA Sculpture Garden

    MoMA Sculpture Garden View On White

  • I asked H.o.p. what he was thinking…

    I asked H.o.p. what he was thinking…

    MoMA, with Puryear’s Ladder for Booker T. Washington View On White He looks morose, though he wasn’t. Rather, he was somewhat overwhelmed, I think. He’d been dragging me from one sculpture to another for me to take photographs of things he wanted to remember. “This! This! And this! This! And this! Make sure you get…