Category: Image

I’m a tree hugger

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These wonderful creatures could easily turn me into an animist. These palms were waving above the high terrace of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this afternoon.
But, at least on the surface, the current featured exhibition, “Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s−70s,” could hardly be more removed from these beautiful sentinals outside. It’s a stunning show, even if I somehow missed the argument of its curatorial premise.

Portland’s Sauvie Island

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We drove around Sauvie Island this afternoon, just outside the city of Portland. These two photographs are of landscapes approximately two miles from the city limits, and only twelve miles fom the very center of town. They are totally representative of an island which has no gas stations and no visible commercial life outside of its pick-them-yourself farms.
Dreamy. Even Gerhard Richter would be impressed.
Actually, much of the island looks like the kind of arcadia which could have inspired Capability Brown. See Bloggy for more beautiful images.

Brooklyn Grand Ferry Park

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untitled (Grand Ferry Park sunset)

It’s just a slip of a thing right now, but some day the site which once saw ferries, loaded with farm produce and passengers, crossing to Manhattan every few minutes from downtown Williamsburg may be a real destination once again. Meanwhile the small park is a modest delight for a neighborhood cut off from its great river and hungry for park

A red brick smokestack rising above a circular pattern of cobblestones was part of a molasses plant that Pfizer Pharmaceuticals used in the early 20th century for work that led, eventually, to the large-scale production of penicillin. The cobblestones were salvaged from the section of Grand Street where the park was constructed.

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