Moss Collins stopped by 451 Rhawn Gallery this afternoon to take some pictures and a walk-through video.
2024.10.18
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
18 October 2023 Wednesday
Pennypack Trail / Lorimer Park
Fox Chase Farm
I moved where I live now, quondam Ury, seventeen years ago today, and it didn't take long after that (four months) for me to get a copy of Miers Fisher's 1812 almanac/journal--specifically 1812 because of a footnote within Talbot Hamlin's Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955):
7. According to the catalogues of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the 1811 exhibition included, by Latrobe, a landscape on the Schuylkill River, an view of the Richmond penitentiary [a work by Latrobe], and five large drawings of the Capitol at Washington [a work by Latrobe]--two plans, two elevations, and a perspective. In 1812 he exhibited a view of the seat of Myers Fisberg [sic], Esq., and another Schuylkill River landscape, and in 1818 a perspective of the Baltimore Cathedral [a work by Latrobe]. His wife also painter; Mary Latrobe is credited with two views from nature in the 1812 exhibition. I owe this information to the kindness of Miss Anna W. Rutledge.
--page 318
I want write about how The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project, for fourteen months now, has been the best part of my days--about three hours doing each day and about two hours thinking each night. Furthermore, the discovery's development was one surprise after another; very little was planned after the pages became daily productions.
I may be the last living descendant of Ferdinand and Juliana Lauf to actually know where they lived, because I've actually been there.
Red October in Philadelphia 2023--it's a real thing.
Without my even knowing it then, for a couple of years in the late 1970s, I was on close terms with members of the last Palestinian Governor of Galilee's family. Of course there was a degree of separation, but only barely.
2023.10.18
POPICA 002
2017.10.18
Artifacts of Ottopia Nos. 91-95
The Driver's Seat: remember it's 1975
The Driver's Seat: at the Altar of Peace "It's not so much a presence. It's more a lack of absence."
The Driver's Seat: terrorist attack in front of the Altar of Peace
The Driver's Seat: where were you when the terrorists attacked?
The Driver's Seat: "What time is it?"
2004.10.18
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