on the occasion of my mother's 98th birthday

Greta
some art some poems by Greta Tillinger | Make Your Own Book

I created a book of some of her work. I invite you to share it.

escape

meeting a blogging friend
for the first time and going to
coney island for the first time
in decades. blue skies and
no humidity. altogether a
glorious saturday.

snow farm collage

a week at snow farm creating painted paper and
using it to make collage. eat, sleep create. repeat

adieu david weiss

years ago during a sleepless night flipping channels, head on my pillow hoping for something to bore me to sleep I came upon a curious, wordless film which got me sitting upright and wide awake. a rube Goldberg like contraption but on the scale of a warehous - and with fire! it was in the days before the internets and, though the impression remained with me it wasn't until years later when I followed the William Gibson forum that I thought to describe the piece and was quickly informed that it was 'the way things go' by the artists Fiscli and Weiss.

from the ny times

David Weiss, one half of Peter Fischli/David Weiss, or Fischli/Weiss, a Swiss art duo known for sculptures, photographs and videos that enumerate, celebrate and ever-so-gently skewer the banalities of everyday life, and for “The Way Things Go,” one of the most acclaimed art films of the late 20th century, died on April 27 in Zurich. He was 65.

there's a video herefor those with flash

eclipse

a little late on the poetry month post

yes, national poetry month was
april. keep it going by clicking on the arrow here