2023.11.08
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
8 November 2023 Wednesday
There was some election results talk in the morning, and then mention of the electric bus crash.
"Oh yeah, where did that happen?"
"Where Nancy Pelosi's from."
"San Francisco."
George unexpectedly joined in.
"Steve, who's the artist/musician that did the song San Francisco?"
"Ahhh. . .The Village People."
To my surprise George started laughing, "Yeah, The Village People," and George rarely laughs.
And then I started singing the words "San Francisco," "Y.M.C.A" and "In the Navy." That's literally all I could remember, but then I remembered: "You know, Bruce Jenner was in a movie with The Village People, Can't Stop the Music, 1980."
"You mean Kaitlyn Jenner."
Oh boy, talk about changing history.
In the afternoon, I unexpectedly met Ro and Steve at the supermarket, and, again, there wasn't a moment when one of us wasn't saying something.
In the evening, I was thinking how, with the end of The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project, there also comes the unburdening of my ever again having to wonder whether I'll fulfill the long-time ambition and desire of writing a major work on Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Having now done it is indeed a relief, and likewise an unexpected gratification because I never imagined writing about Laura Piranesi and Francesco Piranesi as well.
And one more unexpected thing: The Timepiece of Humanity right now on exhibit at GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow affording the potential to shift from thinking about the making and changing of history to thinking about the making and changing of the future.
2018.11.08
page painting 006
page painting 008
2011.11.08
Quondam's Fifteenth Anniversary
2005.11.08
It rocked Eisenman on his chair...
The following is part of an unexpected email I received about an hour ago.
I am a student at the Yale Graduate school of Architecture. We have [Peter] Eisenman as a professor and he makes us analyse, among others, Piranesi's Campo Marzio. Along with my own analysis, I used some of the more striking parts of your very interesting and excellent analysis. It rocked Eisenman on his chair and he is now inquiring into your analysis, of which he had not heard.
2004.11.08
Re: Concrete Comedy: A Primer
Perhaps it's just me, but if I were to write (for an 'international' art magazine) about metabolic imagination, for example, I'd (at least try to) do it metabolically, even.
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