Davema turned 50 & we got some perspective

Heroes

They've both lived their lives in public service. They've saved many lives through direct action and policy. They would never think about it. When they get up in the morning they just go to work.

David's 50th at the Kabalah Center of Chicago

It was a rare experience to sort through shopping bags of someone elses life in pictures -

their individual recorded history really. This kind of review was usually reserved for the mortal end (memento mori). There is so much media now - so many camera's in life that a 50th birthday must be the best vantage for the SLIDE SHOW. Karen Adler asked me to distill the broth that is David Marder's vitae so ...

meet my friend David:

This is a great shirt with bad teeth.

Could Bar Mitzvah's encourage premarital sex?

But life is good and Davema thrived...
His luck increased and he took some time to celebrate

Julie - (JMB) - {Just More Beautiful....Every Day}

And Charlie (Charlene) Waters was there in my heart.

These two chicks stayed the night. Fabulous ..

AND ON SUNDAY WE REPENTED...

In the freezing cold among the very white dead beauty of

Graceland Cemetery

Roland Barthe's "The Lover's Discourse - Fragments"

Illustrations for "The Lover's Discourse", Mixed Media, 2007

Some of y'all already know this but I'm working a lot on a project to illustrate Roland Barthe's 1977 linguistic masterpiece "Fragments d'un Discours Amoreux" (or as translated in 1978 in English "A Lover's Discourse"). Wooosh. What a muthful.

I wanted to start uploading images of the 'pages' this weekend but google was not handling the traffic very well at all. It's a potent but different kind of anger you feel when customer service collapses in cyberspace.

Anyway here are the early images.

I have committed to completing 22 of the 84 Fragments for a preview on February 14th.

They will evolve enormously over the year -- till next Valentine's day. I wanted to get one story of one Fragment down because it's just so:

I was looking for a toy boat on ebay and I came across the most EMO and particularly appropriate carved toy boat. It was really a couple of 2 x 4's cut up and carved then painted red and cream. It was just like the early ebay ad campaign. The whole story is an ad campaign and the LD project is all about the meme so...

Here's the quick story and I'll provide the archival material later -

The ebay Seller's notes include the info that the kid who made it died. I bid $5.99 and got it. I asked the seller if he could tell me more about the boy. He did in such a forthright way. The boy's name was Roger Alquire from Sioux Falls. He got in a car crash in 1962 on his way home from college. If that weren't enough our ebay buddy goes on, "His mother just died last winter. Her mind was going and some how (sic) she locked herself out of the house and froze to death. They found her in the back yard laying on the side walk dead..ok hope this helps, thanks Bernie" This whole story will live a new life in the Lover's Discourse.