Sound for proposed installation idea : Phobic Garden

Does men's choral singing sound like flying stinging insects?

Hmmmmmmmm

new brochure for Clandestine Garden almost done, will be creating a PDF version to email for those who are interested.

Space smells weird....

In a news report astronauts describe the fact that space does have an odor.

One of things Ford wasn't ready for is the weird smell.

"From the [spacewalks] there really is a distinct smell of space when they come back in," Ford said from the station in a Friday night news conference. "It's like...something I haven't ever smelled before, but I'll never forget it. You know how those things stick with you."

In the past, astronauts have described the smell of space as something akin to gunpowder or ozone.

Red for a while: Clandestine Garden in Red

As I have been walking around during the day I have noticed the most wonderful shades of red foliage and flowers that are being planted for late summer. What a beautfiul site to see shades of maroon, deep purple, blood red and rust mingled together with very little green in one garden installation. Strange how your mind works out an art project before it even exists. Perhaps that is another evolving theme for Clandestine Garden, red of nature and red of man-made objects... such as the rust from the damaged area of a crash car mingling with the red of a flower.

A recent study conducted at Cornell (hard to believe but true) showed that men were more sexually attracted to women who wore red than other colors, like blue.

Matadors use red capes to antagonize bulls (along with spikes in their dicks)

A red flag means warning... be cautious

Red cars are thought to be unlucky. We give lovers red roses. Red cool-aid was served at Jones Town.

Red = lust

Red= violence

Red = passion

Red = love

Red= rage

Tek-Tanik
New Show: Tek-Tanik at the Arts Guild of New Jersey. Opening Sept. 11th with reception Sept 13th from 1-4pm. Curated by Evonne Davis.

Here is her description of the group show:  I have 4 works in the show, including two pairs of images from the Body of Trees series.

September 11 – October 9, 2009 
Reception: Sunday, September 13, 2009 1-4 PM 
Featured Artists: Kate Bonner, Tammy Renee Brackett, Kyle Coniglio, Lisa Di Donato, Lisa Elmaleh, Dahlia Elsayed, Jacob Galle, Michelle Levante, Patick Millard, Stephen Mishol, Matthew Nicolosi, Joan Pamboukes, K. Shelton, Dmitry Strakovsky, Emma Wilcox, Sue Zwick 
Evonne Davis, Guest Curator

tectonic |tek'tänik| adjective 
1 Geology of or relating to the structure of the earth's crust and the large-scale processes that take place within it. 
2 of or relating to building or construction. 
DERIVATIVES 
tectonically |-ik(?)le| adverb 
ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (sense 2) : via late Latin from Greek tektonikos, from tekton 'carpenter, builder.'

“The idea behind this exhibit is influenced by an appreciation for Charles Darwin, Kiki Smith, Noam Chomsky, Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, e.e. cummings and others.

|tek'tänik| will attempt to explore the relationship between our physical environments and our emotional/psychological environments. Where we are physically has a great deal of impact on how we feel and identify on many levels, short term and long term. This exhibit will deal with issues of environmental health and relates those issues to health of community and spirit.

Questions asked will include: How do we create and recreate ourselves around our spaces? Does the shape of our internal lives reflect the literal shape of the structures that surround us? What impact has the wealth of technological advancement made on our thought/emotion processing?

Often we are unable to analyze an event or experience until we occupy a changed space giving us distance not only linearly but physically from the event we try to understand. As our environment changes so do we. We adapt to changes large and small.”

– Statement by Evonne Davis, Guest Curator