object is not to forget

artist:

erica van horn

via rm 26

goldilocks

i always liked

goldilocks because

she had the guts to

go into that house

and try their stuff

out. i don't know if

i would have done that.

and then she took off,

but really it wasn't

cowardice: it was

self-preservation.

i mean, they were

bears. right?

i suppose some folks

thought she wasn't

that bright. but that

wasn't my read on it.

in the version i liked,

she was quite savvy and

in possession of

a strong will.

my feeling was that

she didn't let

not

being one of them

stop her. she made

herself at home.

and she didn't give up.

until it was, truly,

time to cut and run.

okay, so maybe

she dozed off for a bit.

but she wasn't

afraid to sit in the

big chair and try it out

for size.

and 'tho she did

break a few rules,

she figured out

what was just

right.

now. doesn't

that sound

better than

planning to be a princess

when you grow up?

birds of a feather

cream linen, turkish, faded. silk and metal thread.

jane austen's shawl

via needleprint

last spring

spring,

soon?

(i'm looking forward to seeing these again)

she'd established

a new

address

brilliant

une fille

community films

to incl. lartigue, tallulah belles & une fille

tallulah's

tutu

a stitch in time

links:

letterheady

andrew baseman

beatUpCreations

une fille

*beatUpCreations via magnificent [bb-blog]

six cents

vivian maier

here from here

2 more imperfect postcards from mary randolph carter (& a note from l.b.)

"Landscape: Another 25-cent junk painting that

has that look of Fall in the American countryside.

Still life of table: From my junk master's

collection--it reminded me of Thanksgiving."

mrc

mary randolph carter included

the above in her original notes for

the postcards series. i've been

thinking about art a lot lately,

and maybe the reason it took

so long to publish these is that

i needed them to remind me

that art is not easy to define

and harder, still, to qualify.

louise bourgeois just arrived

in the mail, via a suggestion

from david john at yhbhs.

here's what she said on p. 91:

"If I am asked what I want to

express, then this makes more

sense. At that point there is a

mystery we can at least talk

about, since for a lifetime I have

wanted to say the same thing..."

on the labor of artists and school teachers

here

envelope: satoshi kitamura

nightingales sing

via:

room 26

the firehouse stomp

the selby

elliot erwitt