house

October 2011

October 2010

October 2009

sky

from The Forecast Your Own Weather Book by Reuben A. Hornstein, McClelland & Stewart/Environment Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, 1980 (image uncredited)

door

from Family Fun: Things to make, do, and play by Susan Stranks, Barron's Educational Series, NY, 1979

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from JUNIOR (The Canadian Red Cross Society magazine for school children), Vol.L, No.5 , Toronto, May 1971 (detail of removeable poster)

when you're tired and fall

How Does it Feel to be a Tree? by Flo Morse, illustrated by Clyde Watson, Parents' Magazine Press, NY, 1976

M.L.

Micah Lexier's exhibition Things Exist opens today at Birch Libralato, Toronto. Wish I could be there. "Things exist, we do not have to create them, we only have to grasp their relations." -Stéphane Mallarmé

(Micah and I have been working on a book together, to be published early next year. I hope to post more about that soon.)

alley, candle, rubbish, stripes

details from The Young Readers Press First Dictionary by John Trevaskis & Robin Hyman, illustrated by John Seares Riley, Young Readers Press, NY, 1967 (1973)---I'm looking for anything else John Seares Riley may have illustrated. Google has let me down so far.

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Hippopotamus in earthenware, with copper alkaline glaze, Egyptian (Middle Kingdom) about 1900 BC
from Animals in Pottery and Porcelain by John P. Cushion, Crown Publishers, NY, 1974

du Noun

from Herve DiRosa: Robots du Noun, Centre Cultural Aragon, Oyonnax, 2009 (french language) Herve DiRosa's collaboration with Bamoun artists, Cameroon.

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R. Buckminster Fuller: Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures from Structure in Art and in Science, edited by Gyorgy Kepes, George Braziller, NY, 1965 (Vision + Value Series) (previously)

100

K. Nicol's exhibition hundreds of things volume 1 opens tomorrow at MKG127

more

igluviak

from Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer (text and photos), Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 1981
Tookillkee Kiguktak and his son Jopee demonstrate building an igloo. They live in Griese Fiord, on Ellesmere Island (Canadian arctic).

How long it takes for the candle to burn away.

from Ourselves, Early Experiences, and Time, Macdonald Educational, London, 1972-73

sad sound

"Kay's painting of a sad sound"

from Early Experiences, Macdonald Educational, London, 1973

centerfold

Henry Moore Falling Warrior 1956-57 from Modern Sculpture by Alan Bowness, Studio Vista, 1965

(...)

Three Song (Song of Three) from Sesame Street, episode 1, November, 1969
12.45 Lunch from I am Curious Yellow, directed by Vilgot Sjöman, 1967