twice a year this floral centerpiece encasing a statue of the Lady Fatima floats by our house along with the full congregation of the portuguese church nearby...transforming our neighbourhood into a small timeless Iberian village for a brief enchanted afternoon...
"GREEDY DEVELOPERS TORCHED THIS BEAUTIFUL HOME...QUESTION YOUR POLITICIANS! (BUT THEY WILL LIE!)" by Anonymous Concerned Citizens who Write their Thoughts on Unvarnished Plywood Sheathing behind Dying Houses
unruly spaces can be more visually vigorous...[pristine environs exhaust my savage eye] drawn to the worn, the weathered, the indeterminate, the eccentric - along a street, around a corner, down an alley, through a window, against a door... in this frivolous city floating above the north pacific coast, I record the savage states of neglected streets, ambiguous buildings, exuberant eviscerations - and always find unexpected complacencies, even early on some sunday mornings...
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**another new book:: PARIS PRIMITIF ephemeral images from my parisphere a selection of compelling images and text culled from my paris primitif blog of the quirky and intimate Paris I know so well...
BARCELONA PRIMITIVA barca blanca...casa batllo...pavello mies van der rohe 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 barca blanca...
a collection of idiomatic expressions, ephemeral messages and poetic scrawls stumbled upon and recorded in Vancouver, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg and other cities...