2026.03.15
Compositions Knowingly Intended To End Up In Art History Books 001
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2004.03.15
Burial Practices of Native Americans: Production of a Kind Architecture
I live in one of the valleys that is part of Philadelphia's Tacony Creek Watershed, specifically the valley created by (the quondam) Rock Run (which is today a large sewer tunnel under the couple mile length of Ashdale Street since the early 1940s). The mouth of Rock Run at Tacony Creek is today a large tunnel (not at all unlike the ancient Roman main sewer tunnel that is still to be seen along the east bank of the Tiber). It is recorded that Lenape once lived ("camped") around the confluence of Tacony Creek and Rock Run--the name Tacony is derived from the Lenape tekene which means wooded place. The highest point of elevation (less than 1/4 mile from the point of the creek/run convergence) is today the intersection of Rising Sun Avenue and Tabor Road [incidentally where Cardinal Dougherty and Eva Stotesbury are to be married 21 June 2004 (summer solstice), with St. James the Great and St. Ambrose presiding], where the (once rural) community of Olney was established a little over 150 years ago. Rising Sun Avenue appears to be built upon an age old Lenape trail, and Tabor Road goes back (at least) to the first half of 1776. Since 1998 I've been wondering if Rock Run Valley adjacent Tacony Creek and Rising Sun and Tabor was once Lenape burial ground.
see also: Re: electromagnetism in the body
This Saturday morning, 20 March 2004, John the Baptist Piranesi is conducting a dies sanguinis (day of blood) equinox tour of Tacony Creek Park, starting at St. Ambrose Parish School and ending at the site of the now quondam (cut down sometime a few months ago) quintuple sacred tree next to where Rising Sun Avenue crosses Tacony Creek. Those attending the tour are also invited to the Dougherty/Stotesbury Engagement Party at Lynnewood Hall that evening. Thanks to Eva's brilliant social skills, she convinced Benjamin Franklin to invite King Louis XVI to Philadelphia also on 20 March (since 20 March 1778 is when the King and Franklin first met at Versailles--the etiquette of reciprocity). Eva can barely contain herself at the prospect of showing King Louis around the quondam site of Whitemarsh Hall, her main Trumbauer house, "the Versailles of America."
Re: a (better) commercial (real estate) value
Enjoying your exchange guys.
Just thought I'd offer the titles of two books (that I'm familiar with) that somewhat relate to the topic at hand.
Richard A. Etlin, The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris (MIT Press), 1984.
William N. Morgan, Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States (MIT Press), 1980.
The closest cemetery to where I live is on the grounds behind St. James Methodist Church (the first church of Olney, 1818), a few blocks west on Tabor Road. The closest grave to where I live, however, is that of Father Hughes, the founding pastor of St. Ambrose Catholic Church, which is a marked by a Celtic Cross on a patch of lawn in front of the original 1923 Church/School building, right on Roosevelt Blvd., just a block and a half away.
Since 1997, there have been three murders committed within Tacony Creek Park between Roosevelt Blvd. (right at the mouth of Rock Run) and Rising Sun Avenue. And since 1990, there have been over a dozen (or even many more) findings of remains of Santeria and/or Voodoo rituals (including sacrificed animal carcasses) in the same park area.
2002.03.15
Hot Soup
1964.03.15
1964. Sunday, New York City
Duchamp is one of the thirty-one guests invited to a meal by the maker of "tableaux-pièges", Daniel Spoerri [10.3.1961]. The places set at the table are identical, but transformed by each guest while eating and the end result is exhibited at the Alan Stone Gallery. When Duchamp leaves the table, beside his rather messy plate is a coffee cup and saucer with a spoon, another small spoon lying on the table, three wine glasses, a crumpled serviette and two ashtrays, the smaller on containing the stub and ashes of his cigar.
Daniel Spoerri Meal Variation No. 2 Eaten by Marcel Duchamp 1964.03.15
As well as "31 Variations on a Meal", Spoerri realizes one of Duchamp's ideas for a readymade, that of using a masterpiece on canvas as an ironing board. The resulting assemblage in which Mona Lisa is incorporated rather than a Rembrandt, Spoerri puts into the category: "piège à mots" [word trap].
Ephemerides
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