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"Dear Tree, I don't want to be sad, I just am. The explanation is just too far beyond anything."

I found this note in my kids' schoolyard last fall.

Driftwood

The Driftwood Book by Mary E. Thompson, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1960

...see also  Weathered Wood.

Envoi esperluette Réponse

exhibition/book launch
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
Artexte, Montreal
June 7 - September 8, 2012

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist's respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct: each image was to function as a "call" seeking a "response" from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project's opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves (Zurich) and Artexte. In Artexte's new gallery space, the project is shown as an installation in which shared themes and motifs are seen to play out over time, alongside objects selected from the source material.

Call Ampersand Response
196 pp. (including covers), 196 b&w illus.,
25.5 x 19.5 cm. Co-published by
Nieves and Artexte.
ISBN 978-3-905999-08-2

205

Due Date: Never

RAY GUN

The Mouse Museum / The Ray Gun Wing: Two Collections/Two Museums by Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1978

In Oldenburg's words, "the Ray Gun stands for vision, the power of 'seeing through walls,' i.e. the artist's supposed capacity to discover reality. The slogan connected with it is: 'Annihilate, illuminate,' or to be transformed by revelation, knowledge. The Ray Gun Wing is a celebration of the right angle form... -from the introduction by Judith Russi Kirshner

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.)

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(inside cover with burn hole) 10,000 Dreams Interpreted Or What's in a Dream by Gustavus Hindman Miller, Hubbard Press, 1931

snowball

in my neighbourhood.

Post Card.

(a gift from MML. Thanks!)

In Books: As coyote once must have seen fit to grumble.

Our Daddy is a Lumberman, Wally Don Kennedy, 1960

My Dinner with Andre, Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory, Screenplay for the film by Louis Malle, 1981

Fun with Lines and Curves, Elsie Ellison, 1972

Thirteen, Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner, 1975

Dr. De Soto Goes To Africa, William Steig, 1992

Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, 1970

Doctor De Soto, William Steig, 1982

Le Petit Prince (Canadian Educational Edition) , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1969

previously

Home Library

Around The World in 2,000 Pictures, Doubleday, 1954 (1959) with homemade cardpocket and card ( "Due--Nov., Nov., Nov., Nov.,..." ) Thanks to MML for finding this and letting me take it home.

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Note I found on the street (at least 10 years ago). I've since lost the original, but for some reason I had made a photocopy.

The graves of James Brown and Isaac Hayes,

Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, October 2008

found on public bulletin board, 2003