found at the flea market today...

a lovely thonet bentwood chair ~ 1916?,  

a hand for displaying something,

a globe calendar {cold war perhaps? reminded me of dr. strangelove}~ late 1950’s,

and a bell or alarm ~ 1930’s

a corner of my bedroom

today... i took a few snapshots of a little corner of my bedroom.

things on the wall and stacked on top of each other.

 masked picture on wall and polaroid land camera

 an interior i cut out of a magazine years ago for inspiration

 a few special things in the corner on a suitcase

 world of interiors tear out on the wall

david, candy and rip...off set

of man who fell to earth..

something on my wall 

i like to look at

...

Colette and toby

this is colette and her little dog toby...

{yesterday it was new years eve and i fell in love a little black dog.

we did not bring him home because the time is not right.

i came home and told fugu that we will wait till next year to adopt a little

puppy brother or sister for him to play with...}

the arduous archive

i have been putting together an archive 

of things that i have been 

arduously 

going through..

mostly

boxes of of my family's things

and then other things that i come across in

other boxes.

boxes and boxes..

this is a little suitcase of orphans from bohemia.

go to

{ http://arduousarchive.tumblr.com/ }

...

..on collecting scents

something very fascinating and intriguing to me..

on my list of invisible things.

a memory of when i first heard about about this was a reaction of

What The .....

and then ongoing puzzlement.

they would sneak into people's apartments and steal their underwear or pull hair from the drain.

When the Berlin Wall fell, the Stasi headquarters were ransacked. In a small room revellers found hundred of jars labelled with people’s names and stuffed with pieces of fabric. These pieces of fabric contained the smell of hundreds of people that the secret police considered to be dissenters, and were to be used to train East German smell hounds. The jars can now be seen in the Stasi Museum in Berlin. There were a number of tactics that the Stasi used to collect smells, originally they handed the subjects a yellow cloth and asked them to wipe an armpit or groin. Then they invented "the smell sample chair", a perforated metal chair with a tray underneath the seat where they put the yellow cloth to collect sweat and scent which dropped down. Finally, they also broke into peoples homes and stole their clothes and underwear. In 2007, the German authorities revived this tactic and started to put together a database of scents, they began with possible violent protesters at the G8 summit who were made to hold metal rods from which their scents were collected. The smell of Stasi fabrics was recreated this year by contemporary art curator Robert Blackson and his smell consultants, in an art exhibition called “If There Ever Was – a book of extinct and impossible smells”. Along with the Stasi smell, they created the smell of the sun (similar to brass polish), of Hiroshima (metallic and pungent) and the Mir Space Station (the smell of sweaty socks – vodka and body odour meant that Mir’s air filtration system became blocked with formaldehyde and stopped working) NASA employs a team to smell every single piece of equipment which goes onto its space flights. George Aldrich and his team ensure that no items which could change the delicate balance of the climate of the International Space Station and the space shuttle.

middle of November

yesterday is rained.

watched Tron...

while the rain poured down in the street and made a river with leaves.

today for brunch. another variation on the poached egg on toast.

wheat toast, avocado,vine tomato, red onion, poached egg and sprouts on top.

it was misty and wet outside.

went for a walk in the park with fugu.

added some more of my art to my Invisible Things page -

http://oblastpruvodce.tumblr.com/

going to start an archive of photos for a tumblr of all the things i am having to get rid of.

An Arduous Archive.. it will be called.

i have got to get out of this rut.

too many things cluttering around me.

i can't keep my family's things forever.

http://arduousarchive.tumblr.com/

this year has been focused on the gallery and moving it twice and opening it up twice.

so much work and energy involved.

next year i would like to go on many more trips and adventures.

i would also like to make more and get much more of my art work out in the world

paper flowers

On this day
...7 years ago
my mother took her life.

She called me that morning and asked if I could bring over a movie and
a german chocolate milkshake.
I grabbed Big Fish and went over there....

...
I walked in the house and
I found my mom in the bath tub.
She had shot herself in the head.

On the dining room table..
She had organized important folders, papers and instructions for me.

There was also a note from her that said...

' You might not know this.. but I have always been your biggest fan....
I know you better than you know yourself perhaps...

This life is for the living.. Go live it!
 Don't keep my things.
Those things I collected, were my memories....
You have your own memories to create...

 Most importantly..
Always follow your dreams.

I love you now.
And I will love you always. '




i miss her dearly
love you mom

they hunt

after the humans...

shall be an inspiration

for me going back in a time machine

when i did hares?

my three cats

front to back...

cookie

henry

orangina

orangina

and 

henry walking by

cookie and my toes

a sunday morning

this was my breakfast-

egg in a nest 

with mrs. dash and pepper

while listening to the sounds of

desmond dekker

from the Drugstore Cowboy soundtrack

[still love this movie -even after 20 times]

took a long walk with fugu 

in the park and laid 

on the grass  while watching

the squirels

in the evening

the man who fell to earth

like a heartbeat

wire

 my vintage wire t-shirt from argentina came today in the post!

also drove over to the ups warehouse and
picked up a package from the UK.
Abi's work was lost in the back of the warehouse for two weeks and they called me up
today and told me they had found it!

[she wrapped it in newspaper comics]

it's going up in the gallery- just in time for the second part of the

exhibit....hooray!

a fish factory

the last few months,

i have been working on getting a larger warehouse space 

over by the L.A. river and down by the train tracks...

  Where life size installations, film and sound

can all fit nicely together.

fingers are crossed..

to be cont...

[update- got it!]

dish of the day

noelle's poached egg on toast:

~one egg

~pinch of black lava salt

~ extra virgin olive oil

~two small slices of multi wheat sour dough

~slice of heirloom tomato from backyard

~avocado

~topped with spicy daikon radish sprouts

~and a sprinkle of dash

and then fugu got to lick the plate.

vegetable man

the imaginative and stylish syd barrett