SubRosa

"Meet me down at Coney Island"

5 cents ride to New York's Coney in 1930.

"The things she left behind"

Marilyn files

Read “The Things She Left Behind,” by Sam Kashner.

Je pense donc je suis

« L'histoire a beau prétendre nous raconter toujours du nouveau, elle est comme le kaléidoscope : chaque tour nous présente une configuration nouvelle, et cependant ce sont, à dire vrai, les mêmes éléments qui passent toujours sous nos yeux. »

« History may claim to always tell us of the new, while like a kaleidoscope, every tour reveals a changed configuration, but it is truly the same elements, always, passing under our gazing eyes. »

Arthur Schopenhauer.

 

Artist Cassandra C. Jones    
Opening Reception September 4, 5-10pm.
BRX - Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
172 Minna Street @ SF MOMA. San Francisco, CA.

Wind vane whispers

Can we ? Girouette tourne, tourne, et murmure,
yes, we can!
ManifestHope like a Political flavor in days of
"I have a dream"...

Un, deux, trois, for the American Anthem.

 

 

El Castillo, un recorrido mágico por el mundo de Edward James.

In the land of Mayans and Aztecs, far hidden in the Sierra Madre's jungle, populated with exotic creatures such as flamingos and boa constrictors, sparkles a gem, a unique sculpture garden, with haciendas, temples, pagodas and fountains, erupted under the spell and imagination of an eccentric English millionaire.

"Look, we move among a bunch of 'pseudo-realists',
who produce nothing but junk.
So, they try to act like madmen to justify themselves.
On the other hand, you who are real labor to act sane".
Salvador Dali to Edward James.

Edward James, was a British aristocrat, who loved surrealist art and as a collector, did commission and support artists such as Dali and Magritte, financed "Minotaure", a lavish Surrealist magazine published in Paris, or a series of Balanchine productions ; while entertaining  at Monkton House, on a large sofa to which Dalí gave the form and colour of Mae West's lips,  Picasso, Stravinsky, kurt Weill, Brecht, Aldous Huxley or Man Ray...  While war was raging, he left Europe in 1940, via The United States and then to Cuernavaca, in Mexico. Mesmerized by a land in Xilitla  "Lieu où l'on trouve des escargots", a lush tropical oasis of natural lagoons, Las Pozas, he began cultivating thousands of orchids with the help of a Yaqui indian, Plutarco Gastelum Esquer, before dedicate , with Carmelo Munoz Camacho in building a "château", his thébaÏde, projecting his architectural fantasies of an architect, poet, artist, who, In the 1970s, sold the world's largest and most important collection of Surrealist art to fund the garden. Surrealistic.
                                                            
Edward James by René Magritte, La Reproduction Interdite (1937).

Remake in San Francisco skies

Wise Master says "Death Star over San Francisco's August's sky"
is perfect example how "In a dark place we find ourselves, and, a little more knowledge might light our way."
Yoda.
Wookieepedia "The Stars Wars wiki"

Casa de la Fortuna.

City of Cartagena, Spain.
Des visages de "Carthago Nova"; la nouvelle Carthage, Carthagène ; s'impriment, s'affichent, s'exposent dans la ville.
Voyage dans la Cartagena de Indias, de par les islas del Rosario.
Une ville et ses visages.

Envolée estivale

Sigur Ròs live at MOMA New York.
Echappée belle et surréelle avec le groupe islandais qui nous emporte vers de vertigineux confins où les sons se déversent entre incantations et transcendance.