melissa armstrong cracked paper
I really dug Melissa Armstrong’s cracked ceramic paper at the RISD NE Alumni Biennial 2009I liked other stuff there as well, but hers was right next to mine, and I kept almost stepping on it, so remembered to take a photo. Melissa was in the Siting’s exhibit with me back at RISD as well, when [...]
a four-boat island
Spent the day building an island out of four paddleboats. More at our project blog: notes, updates, adventures from the -topias
Remain: Nostos Ou Topos
“Nostos is the Greek for ‘a return home’; the Gypsies have no home, and, perhaps uniquely among peoples, they have no dream of a homeland. ‘Utopia-ou topos’ means ‘no place.’ Nostalgia for utopia: a return home to no place.” -Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
twitter/fromchris
I twitter now: twitter.com/fromchris Sorry, Val.
visionary architectures / matt bua
Just back from checking out the test print of the Visionary Architecture book (I’ve got Displosable/ Displodable / Pristine Master House Plan, and something I did when i was nine in it) that will be part of Matt Bua and Jesse Berkowitz’s installation at Mass Moca, opening around March 21. There is a brief interview [...]