2025.12.24
momentarily out of the curious cabinet
2024.12.24
451 Rhawn Gallery
2008.12.24
North Direction in Drawing
It was like a week after New Years 1987, and we just finished dinner in a restaurant on one of the more secluded beaches of Manly, Australia. There were five of us, my cousin who moved to Australia from post-war Germany, a sister and brother born in Australia, a young Tasmanian woman and me, the only northern hemisphere resident. There was a crescent moon overhead a little over the ocean. It struck me as odd, and I said so.
"what do you mean?!?"
"well, it's like up-side down or something. I've never seen it like that before."
"how do you usually see it then?"
"wait. let me try something."
I turned around and looked up bent over backwards.
"there. this is how I usually see it."
then the rest of them did the same thing, bobbing their heads around taking it all in.
I watched them and then cracked up laughing.
"you guys now look as drunk as you actually are!"
and we all just stared laughing. and then it hit me.
"wait, where's the Southern Cross?"
the brother, "I'll find it. there it is!"
"Ah."
1999.12.24
(ninth of) Top 10
9.
Marcel Duchamp
the most interior architect of 20th centruy art
1997.12.24
Museum of Architecture for Venice
...school project for a museum of architecture in Venice. ...resurrect this project as Ur-Quondam. ...it is a continuation of the Schinkel-Corbu-Stirling legacy, especially to Schinkel's Court Gardener's House. ...exhibit of the building filled with a collage of rooms (plans)...
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