tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79661459719488473622024-03-05T15:36:13.748-08:00Backwoods UtopiaAll artwork and images are copyright 2015 Griffin Norman. All rights reserved.Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-32425544054937734602014-10-05T15:13:00.000-07:002014-10-05T15:13:27.869-07:00Eames in HarmonyHaven’t posted anything to this blog in ages! Mostly in Nashville lately.<br />
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Was able to (very briefly) help out with and photograph part of the installation of “A Healing Palindrome”—a stage of Eames Demetrios’ Kcymaerxthaere project—in New Harmony last week. The installation is in a field behind Richard Meier’s Atheneum. Some photos here. More info about the project at <a href="http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/">www.kcymaerxthaere.com</a><br />
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Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-47224701746872109002014-06-20T11:09:00.001-07:002014-06-20T11:09:31.368-07:00Heritage Days in New HarmonyHad a great time this year shooting for the Visit New Harmony website visitnewharmony.com and meeting some great artisans at the annual Heritage Days. Tinsmiths, potters and woodworkers, oh my.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-87346027628197645112014-05-06T20:08:00.003-07:002014-05-06T20:09:07.020-07:00Infodumps and DatafillsWas happy to meet the artist Leticia Bajuyo <a href="http://www.leticiabajuyo.com/">(www.leticiabajuyo.com)</a> recently at the close of her show “Infodumps and Datafills” at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. Helped her document the installation, the largest part of which was a pair of large horn-like “speakers” constructed of re-purposed compact discs (they felt a little like dragon scales, and were very interesting in various light and shadow situations). The speakers were connected to a pair of Theremins, which could be played by the viewer. The show was rounded out by a dense black sculpture made of re-purposed digital cable, and a number of related drawings on wood. Delighted to later find out that Leticia and my buddy Mark Hosford had gone to graduate school together. Small, funny world. One of the speakers below for feel. Difficult to convey the space, scale, the addition of sound, etc.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-19289548555612779992014-03-15T21:32:00.000-07:002014-03-15T22:27:12.246-07:00Visit New Harmony!We had a lovely ceremony tonight in New Harmony, launching 200 of these
lantern/teeny hot air balloon thingies to celebrate the launch of
visitnewharmony.com. The lanterns were particularly beautiful and
magical after the sun went down. Children squealed, strong men fainted
(well, OK...children squealed...a lot). Lots of oohing and ahhing all around.<br />
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Light is such a powerful symbol, it’s odd looking at these pictures of
people concentrating so intensely on these things as they hold them
gently before letting them float away on the slight wind, like they’re holding something that belongs to a another, more magical world.<br />
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The children seemed so excited for the little floating critters to escape, as if they’d both won some small victory, running along after them for a while and hooting with joy. I think the lanterns
are symbolic of good wishes—for us, and for others—sent out into the world. We can only hope
that someone’s property isn’t currently ablaze across the river in
southern Illinois, where they were all headed;)<br />
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Just realized I haven’t posted anything here in a little over a year! Started with my mom’s cat dying and slid downhill from there. Will try to remedy that in near future. Here’s a fun time-lapse video of a project I collaborated on with my pals Bryce and Elizabeth recently (<a href="http://isleofprinting.com/">isleofprinting.com</a>). It’s an installation at Pinewood Social in Nashville, that we call a “mural” for lack of an adequate term. It’s a wall of 2000 cans for made-up products that act as “pixels” and create a changeable image out of the wall.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/86653248" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/86653248</a>Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-90197722879582780742013-02-15T20:15:00.000-08:002013-02-15T20:15:28.052-08:00Woods.My mom, Miss Anne, just found her little cat buddy Woods dead when they got home. Unexpected, but in all honesty, when is any death really expected? We hang on to all life tenaciously.<br />
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He was a great companion to her and her husband, Bobby. Had his own place in bed, was a good cowboy movie watching companion for Bobby, was a good pal to his friend Chippy—a stuffed chipmunk? squirrel? something...—who came to live with him from FAO Schwartz in New York. He was only about six years old, not old for a cat.<br />
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Because of my allergies, I’ve never been much of a “cat person”—to say the least—but for a cat, Woods was pretty good people. R.I.P., buddy.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-27663627504436499842013-02-08T13:59:00.001-08:002013-02-12T20:12:34.067-08:00Bridge to nowhere.No, not the Sarah Palin one. The bridge which for decades allowed motorists to seamlessly travel from Indiana to Illinois and vice versa. Defunct bridges make nice metal sculptures.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-5586042030800986482013-01-02T20:29:00.000-08:002013-02-12T20:12:47.062-08:00A world in white gets underway.It snowed in New Harmony while I was in Alabama having rain for Christmas. A veil of tears for the virgin birth. The snow at Christmas, of which spake Emerson, Lake & Palmer, forsooth, fell here. Mmmm...commas. Always enjoy a hike when snow is pretty freshly fallen, but offered no alternative, I trod out into the starting-to-melt, stale snowfall yesterday to see what I could see.<br />
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Well Mr. Johnson, a “roofless” church don’t keep the snow out, let me tell you.<br />
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Particularly enjoyed tromping around by the river and under the currently-defunct Wabash River bridge between Indiana and Illinois. The last time I spent much time down there much of the surrounding area was underwater during “the great flood of ’11.” Can’t believe that’s been over a year and a half ago.<br />
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Made friends with this little pig. He was shy, but happy, wagging his pig-tail the whole time I was chatting with him. Reminded me of my childhood obsession with owning a smart, funny pig like Arnold Ziffel from Green Acres. “Farm living is the life for me.” ;)<br />
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Kids everywhere with painted faces. Ella was a butterfly.<br />
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Also, I was strangely attracted to the Ruritan’s funnel cake stand, but was victorious over temptation...I’m on a low-funnel cake diet.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-38670012617353963182012-09-15T18:17:00.002-07:002013-02-12T20:13:11.161-08:00Ms. InmanSweet Allison Inman. I love this woman to pieces. <br />
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Her skills are manifold. In these pictures, you’ll thrill to: curious stick-handling, nut tossing, old-dog loving, mysterious-look throwing, vintage porch-glider riding, car standing, etc.<br />
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We had been talking about my photographing her for ages, and she was always mysterious and reticent about reasons not to. For some reason this day she said “I think I want to take some pictures”—I picked up my jaw, hid my surprise, and grabbed my camera. The wardrobe styling is all her. She manages to look un-ironically lovely in overalls and bare feet, in her happy backyard.<br />
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Sometimes pictures of certain people feel kind of private and special, maybe a little fragile. These are like that. Look on them with your gentlest eyeballs, kind blog-reader.<br />
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Later that same day—I had been house-sitting for a week while Allison was in San Francisco for work. Was heading back home the next day. We went to see Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom at the Belcourt, and seemingly the next thing I knew I was in the ER with her at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Blood and morphine and worrying. Most of you will know she had a nasty bike wreck which left her badly concussed, with a bunged-up neck and some broken facial bones, a scraped-up face and a bloody eyeball that would frighten small children.<br />
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Thankfully, all’s well (relatively) and after much drugging and resting and good nursing from her mom Norma and many other caring friends, she’s back weaving in and out among the living. Her sweet face is going to be OK, except for a small, hardly noticeable scar. Glad to have documented this calm before that storm. I had been putting off posting these, hoping to say something more perfect. But this will do.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-65128026936729665072012-08-28T12:44:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:13:22.840-08:00Land O’ Goshen, Paw!As a young boy, I remember this phrase being uttered by one Miz Loweezy Smith, wife of Snuffy Smith of the Sunday Funnies. There’s an interesting William Safire “On Language” column that deals in part with the phrase and its ilk <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/magazine/16ONLANGUAGE.html?pagewanted=all">here</a>.<br />
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The Land of Goshen apparently was originally land given to the Israelites in Egypt, from whence they split on the Exodus.<br />
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Goshen, Indiana is the home of one of my new BFFs, Sara Klassen. The niece of my pal Holly, Sara was staying in Nashville for part of the Summer, and we met briefly back in July. On her way back to northern Indiana, she came through and visited with me one afternoon in New Harmony. Visitors here are a rare treat and we had a lovely (if brief) time.<br />
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She had just turned 21 in Nashville, and since I missed the occasion, she put on her birthday dress—not to be confused with her birthday <i>suit</i>—and we wandered about and took some commemorative photographs.<br />
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Sara’s one of those rare birds who seems both very young and very old. I like her.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-78047167755925539862012-08-15T20:00:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:13:34.237-08:00President Jefferson DavisAs I was heading home from Hopkinsville, Kentucky last week, I was about to drive past the exit for the Jefferson Davis Monument. I’ve always intended to check it out, but always find a reason to drive on. Wasn’t even sure how far it was off the Pennyrile Parkway. Turns out it’s just about ten miles, through lovely country. Corn, tobacco, look-out-for-Amish signs...then all of a sudden BANG, this crazy thing rises up out of the surrounding countryside.<br />
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Located in Fairview, which was Davis’ birthplace, the monument is situated in a sweet little park with beautiful old trees. It’s apparently the tallest <i>unreinforced</i> concrete structure in the world. The rebel Washington monument. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_State_Historic_Site">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_State_Historic_Site</a><br />
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It was closed when I got there, so I didn’t go up inside it. But the light was nice. Part of my current programme of seizing moments. Glad I did. Strange and wonderful. Even though I went to a school in Alabama from 5th grade to 12th that was named after Gen. Robert E. Lee, I’m not a big CSA booster, so it wasn’t a religious experience, but it’s our common history. All y’all. Turn it up.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-14448788868021702582012-07-11T16:42:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:13:46.095-08:00FIle Under: Not the way I want to remember these guys.Sitting outside a House of Blues kiosk at Midway in Chicago.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-11272389498860924192012-07-05T08:53:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:13:57.305-08:00Uncle Dan, Ampex, RommelHave been in Alabama for a visit and some family business for the last week and a half. Oddly, Auburn’s normally steamy environs were <i>slightly</i> cooler than both Nashville and New Harmony—although when all parties are showing mercury in 100º+ territory, <i>slightly</i> cooler makes little difference.<br />
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My old uncle Dan—my pops’ older brother—skipped this mortal coil while I was there. He’d had esophageal cancer and went through some pretty dramatic surgery and treatment, so it wasn’t a big surprise, but nobody expected him to go quite so soon. His two sons, John and Drew, were closest cousins and long-time playmates to me and my sister Natalie growing up. I still remember the phone number that they had forty years ago—haven’t used it in decades—don’t expect anybody will be answering it now. 887-7807...it was kind of musical—as was our home number 887-3377. Somewhere along the way we turned into adults, although it still doesn’t feel quite right. The four purportedly grown-up cousins now co-own our family lake cabin. Weird.<br />
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In related news, I happened to be out driving with my mom one day and we drove past the old industrial park where Mr. J. Herbert Orr founded Orrtronics—later Ampex—later Quantegy. Texted my buddy Marc Chevalier, figuring he would know something about the history of magnetic tape. He asked if I’d taken any pictures. I had been camera-less on the day, so Miss Anne and I drove out another time to see if there were any signs of the old place. Hopefully a big, beautiful, <i>literal</i>, vintage sign saying “Ampex.” So, right there on the corner of Orr Avenue and Marvyn Parkway, a piece of the history of how music was recorded is now...a giant moonscape of strewn rubble.<br />
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(Marc, I brought you a nice bit of souvenir rubble) <br />
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The related news part is that uncle Dan worked years ago as an engineer at Ampex, and I think years after that went back to work for a brief stint at Quantegy before it went bust.<br />
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Where does Erwin Rommel the “Desert Fox” (<i>die Wüstenfuchs</i>) come in, you might ask? Well, my favorite lunch-box as a kid was from the old Rommel-era TV series <i>The</i> <i>Rat Patrol</i>, but that’s another story. Turns out the property on which Ampex etc was later built was a P.O.W. camp during WWII! Crazy... Nazis!! Right there where I was a kid—of course I wasn’t a kid yet, but my <i>parents</i> were. Seems like I had some very vague memory of this, but it was very vague, indeed. My mom told me that my great-uncle Sonny and his wife briefly lived at this camp after he got out of the military, when it was turned for a time into housing for returning G.I.s. I actually found what seems to be the only remaining bungalow from the P.O.W. days, when I got out to photograph an old Quantegy sign, overgrown by some holly bushes.<br />
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From the historic marker:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Camp Opelika—World War II Prisoner of War Facility—Located on this 800 acre site was an enemy prisoner of war camp. Construction of Camp Opelika began September 1942. The first prisoners were part of General Erwin Rommels’s Africa Corps. The camp prisoner population was maintained at about 3000 until the end of World War II, in May 1945. In September 1945, the camp was deactivated and deeded to the City of Opelika. For a brief period the camp quarters were used for veteran’s housing before the site became an industrial park.”</i></span><br />
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Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-84961332607990270572012-05-01T16:46:00.001-07:002013-02-12T20:14:11.918-08:00WrenFest 2012: Part 2Hallelujah, It’s Good to be Alive!—declares Baby Wren.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-28890462953434561082012-04-29T14:58:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:14:25.525-08:00Aaron Douglas Murals at FiskOne of those out-of-the-way Nashville treasures I’ve meant to see for years. The Aaron Douglas murals on the second floor of the main administrative building at Fisk University. After being a part of what is commonly known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York, Douglas moved to Nashville in the late 30s and started Fisk’s art department. Finally enjoyed these on a recent trip to Nashville, after visiting the Stieglitz Collection, which I’ve seen a dozen times over the years, but keep returning to something new. A must.<br />
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Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-58906580961838127562012-04-26T10:52:00.001-07:002013-02-12T20:14:37.511-08:00WrenFest 2012: Part 1After so many years of having friends with grown or nearly-grown children, it seems everybody I know has a baby right now. I’ve been joking about them replacing ironic Victorian facial hair as the new #1 Portlandia-style hipster accessory ;)<br />
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Was in Nashville recently, house-sitting, and realized the only way I was definitely going to see one of these new little punkins was to stay with said punkin’s parents for a few days. So, I started with my pals Mack and Holly and made my introductions to little baby Wren (Pictured below).<br />
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She’s a pretty sweet little egg. Except for, you know...the kid stuff, like pants-pooping, crazy sleeping schedule, and inexplicable, sadness-inducing hollerin’—but she’ll grow out of that soon enough. Also, she was fascinated by ME, which gets bonus points.<br />
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Not pictured—but equally fabulous—are Caroline and Nick’s little buddy Emmett, and Marc and Amanda’s Senna, both of whom I had nice, but much briefer visits with.<br />
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<br />Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-35389891517796420962012-03-25T14:37:00.008-07:002013-02-12T20:14:50.624-08:00Death of a Barn, the DVD extras.I was going to try to find a little freeware GIF animator to make a sequence of these, but in the end felt like I might rather just post the images and head for a nap after this...you’ll get the picture.<br />
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A little sequence of the barn finally giving up life as a building and becoming a flaming pile of rubble.<br />
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They had a big ladder extension with a water-sheet making sure the fire didn’t hit any power wires, and hoses on stand-by from several sides on the ground.<br />
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Some of you will know that I still have a little dose of PTSD from a house-fire in Nashville years back. Makes me kinda like a squirrel when I hear sounds that remind me of my fuse-box exploding, gas igniting, that kind of thing. My fire wasn’t anything like what this turned into. The old barnwood was tinder-dry and ready to go. After burning for a few hours rather calmly on the street side, the backside—which had the most wood and also some old hay storage—started to go up.<br />
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Man, is fire a scary thing up close, when it really starts to rage. There had been a big storm sneaking up most of the afternoon, and just as the fire was reaching its peak and the building collapsed, the storm came on hard. Rain, wind, hail. I had my bike on the car and camera gear so I bolted. The end was all a blur. There was a lot of primal excitement when the old barn finally seriously flamed up and pretty quickly collapsed. I was amazed that I had the presence of mind to shoot a little collapse sequence.<br />
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My most vivid memory was that even without much structure, the roof alone held in this enormous blaze and before the end it looked literally like a house built of fire. Stunning.<br />
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What an afternoon.<br />
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Juan and his crew are back in town this weekend heading toward the actual <span style="font-style: italic;">installing</span> part of the installation. Interested to see what evolves.<br />
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cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRg_0ibreBH6PHvLzWXxJOrv5ytFVua7hVfrURxwmUdNrm3GtSN2VhiTekUWftY0l5MSbqzQc0f3aoRSARA9dncl2TkrFa9wS_kQ2OcW8uB-gBbbwevGDblASGPWhMJ1Njeg9EmxoLV8r_/s1600/BARNBURN_34_LO.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723239925163295170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRg_0ibreBH6PHvLzWXxJOrv5ytFVua7hVfrURxwmUdNrm3GtSN2VhiTekUWftY0l5MSbqzQc0f3aoRSARA9dncl2TkrFa9wS_kQ2OcW8uB-gBbbwevGDblASGPWhMJ1Njeg9EmxoLV8r_/s400/BARNBURN_34_LO.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a>Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-84080984248537040192012-03-22T12:56:00.020-07:002013-02-12T20:15:11.946-08:00Death of a Barn, Part 1Had an interesting time last weekend observing the first stage of an installation upcoming at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. It involved salvaging bits of an old barn (which had been badly damaged by storms, bugs, and age) just outside of town, then in a controlled burn—supervised by local firemen—burning the remains of the barn to the ground, for use as material in the installation.<br />
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Was nice to have my sweet pal Erika back in town for a few days, she’d started this project prior to moving to Columbus, OH, and was checking in on it.<br />
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The project is by Chicago-based artist, Juan Chávez. He and his posse are coming back this weekend to proceed with another stage. I probably won’t get as in the middle of this upcoming part...too many cooks in the kitchen, in addition to Juan, he already has a photographer, Joaquin, and a videographer, Alex. Good fellas, all.<br />
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I was fascinated by the still-existing structure of the barn, even though there was very little actual structure other than skeletal framework and some of a roof left. Beautiful setting sunlight, seeping through the abundant cracks and gaping holes where walls once stood. Always been a sucker for ruins (it ain’t the Roman Colusseum, but this IS the Midwest, and history is history). Some of these detail shots make it seem much more intact than was actually the case. Bet it was a beauty in its day.<br />
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The first day was kind of like the visitation of a recently deceased body, coming for one last glimpse, saying goodbyes, relatives taking all the good stuff from the house. Although I don’t think anybody had much real affection for the “deceased” at this point. It felt right that I was there, even though not a member of the family.<br />
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So these are the first part...next the fire.<br />
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cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfiYDJFhbi4Uh-rjR4MvSiGyQXvkYHZSMfcVI_w9jyJfHJmKeHuVere9JprgQm47hm13bKzg6QLK4MmuVsAIb5OqjeLjLcTfarHHPwwUwjqmRJisp_2w6sryJH2S1fj58cwEPsQ8gx3Hw/s1600/BARNBURN_2_LO.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722817337038757346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfiYDJFhbi4Uh-rjR4MvSiGyQXvkYHZSMfcVI_w9jyJfHJmKeHuVere9JprgQm47hm13bKzg6QLK4MmuVsAIb5OqjeLjLcTfarHHPwwUwjqmRJisp_2w6sryJH2S1fj58cwEPsQ8gx3Hw/s400/BARNBURN_2_LO.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a>Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-45769280685980580942011-12-14T19:34:00.000-08:002013-02-12T20:15:22.582-08:00Farm living is the life for me.My sweet friend Lora and I had a nice little afternoon yesterday. I pretended we were doing a little Town and Country shoot with some of her menagerie.<br />
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I had been imagining her wearing a ballgown and holding a baby sheep or some of her crazy fancypants roosters. Was a little too mucky for the John Singer Sargent “Madame X” formal portrait (with critter). And maybe I’m not really that slick anyway. The roosters don’t exactly co-operate with the being held at this point in their career, they just strut around and hope nobody shows up with a cleaver.<br />
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Lora improvised brilliantly with a lovely vintage fur and fancy muck boots. The little grey donkey, Jack, is super sweet, and kind of like a dog. The bully ram just wants to have his head scratched or he’ll butt you and knock you over. The little sheep are so squatty that apparently if they fall over they have a hard time righting themselves, and flail around beetle-wise.<br />
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I resisted a serious urge to try a little sheep-tipping. Then we kicked off the muck boots and had some hot chocolate and a nice chat.<br />
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Have been trying for years to get my family to stop giving each other presents for Christmas once and for all. It’s not that my heart is three sizes too small, it’s just not my best thing.<br />
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On the other hand, my mother, Miss Anne, is a crazy person about Christmas, so I invited her and my sister Natalie to come visit me over the weekend when the big Christmas in New Harmony festivities were going on.<br />
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We had several really beautiful Winter days, mostly sunny and nice. Started raining the day they left and didn’t stop for a minute for several days. We had a big old time (O.K....as big a time as can be had here in Bedford Falls). Sat around the wood-stove at night. Got buzzed one night on White Russians at the Yellow Tavern. Did a lot of touring around. Took a carriage ride.<br />
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We didn’t get up early enough to make it to Pancakes with Santa, but one of the highlights of the weekend was the big parade down Main Street later Saturday morning. I think I’ve always been out of town or something. Didn’t know what I was missing! Cute kids! Tractors! Candy throwing! Santa! Ponies! Mickey Grimm as the Little Drummer Boy! The sweetest three-legged dog ever! A firetruck with my name on it! A giant rooster! Truly a beautiful small-town thing. Probably the last time the kids from the school will march, as it looks like the New Harmony school is sadly closing at the end of the year. Super Boo.<br />
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And yet, It’s a Wonderful Life. Mary! Kids! I’m home!<br />
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cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhf6OZ-Jv7yIqpFZr4AiGb64KuQhyphenhyphen2LSO4aAMS_0i7l9hgf8xYkcuavSCJRek6nZ5PyFzLv06DrIjm-fBEWY2z-rCy7yBNGdIiHmDaxu8tMHUyuqj__YRzPRsjxKjIROE1JRkCVHEcUPT/s1600/XMAS_NH_36_LO.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685416247089684066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhf6OZ-Jv7yIqpFZr4AiGb64KuQhyphenhyphen2LSO4aAMS_0i7l9hgf8xYkcuavSCJRek6nZ5PyFzLv06DrIjm-fBEWY2z-rCy7yBNGdIiHmDaxu8tMHUyuqj__YRzPRsjxKjIROE1JRkCVHEcUPT/s400/XMAS_NH_36_LO.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a>Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-67801214999464456652011-12-12T14:10:00.000-08:002013-02-12T20:15:50.369-08:00Roofless roofing.Philip Johnson’s 1960 “Roofless Church ” is getting a new roof. Sort of. Part of it is getting re-roofed. The old shingles on the “Inverted Rose” structure—which houses Jacque Lipschitz’ bronze “Peace on Earth”*—were starting to show the ravages of decades of weather.<br />
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Local boys, Koester Construction, are doing a fine, artful job of redoing the wooden roof.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">*“Three casts were made, and are located at Notre Dame de Liese in Assy, the abbey of St. Columba on the island of Iona in the Hebrides, and the Roofless Church in New Harmony, Indiana.”</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CJkS4zx6uyLJ7HQFCYtRuI_U3TH5tScpg8GNMn0dEBUlJYCoNpfgu5BXvU6Imw91CxD6_p9szz3MMa3n0ArTzO-gmbr2_7Pf2RBbPc76SqpGoFAW5WruFsz6y4UVyGHSFuY1oN27CSf6/s1600/NH_ROOFLESS_ROOF_1_LO.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685370286312749570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CJkS4zx6uyLJ7HQFCYtRuI_U3TH5tScpg8GNMn0dEBUlJYCoNpfgu5BXvU6Imw91CxD6_p9szz3MMa3n0ArTzO-gmbr2_7Pf2RBbPc76SqpGoFAW5WruFsz6y4UVyGHSFuY1oN27CSf6/s400/NH_ROOFLESS_ROOF_1_LO.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a>Griffin Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04387970437923969375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966145971948847362.post-7883042468821602692011-09-18T18:43:00.000-07:002013-02-12T20:16:00.184-08:00Christine! Rigby!Last Wednesday was a stellar day. Tuesday, not so much. The difference was the lovely Christine Rigby, who is a force of nature. Appropriately enough, my introduction to Christine was (indirectly) through Sally Roth—a naturalist friend—who is also a force of, friend of, and writer about...nature.<br />
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The two had struck up a conversation on couchsurfing.org. Sally was looking for someone to put this young woman up as she came through New Harmony on a leg of a cross-country bike trip.<br />
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Wasn’t really in a putting-someone-up mode, so it rather slipped my mind, but the next day (or the day after, maybe) I noticed a young woman on a bike with packs, helmet, etc., riding past me on my way to the Main Café for late (usual) breakfast. We smiled and nodded to each other. Besides noticing she had a really nice smile, it didn’t click ’til she had pedaled out of sight that this was probably Sally’s rumored bike traveler. Dang.<br />
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Thought I’d ride my bike past the usual tourist sites after breakfast looking for her, and sure enough, bumped into her right out of the gate at the Roofless Church. There was such a nice overcast light and as we stood there talking I felt overwhelmingly compelled to do a portrait of her. I’m trying to be better about seizing obvious opportunites. Raced my bike back home, grabbed my camera and came back in the car—still a little out of breath.<br />
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From my camera’s data, I notice we only shot from 12:39 to 12:54, kind of on the short side of what you’d hope for a decent portrait. But we got some really nice stuff. She’s such a ham for the camera... but a nice ham, a yummy prosciutto, with melon and cheese : )<br />
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Her next couchsurfing stop was outside Newburgh, IN, about a 40 mile bike east from here. Newburgh is one of my more favorite little towns in the area, so I volunteered to drive her there, as it was almost certain to rain pretty hard later in the afternoon. First a me-guided tour of my little town. Some of my favorite stops not on the standard historic tour. Christine was a totally comfortable, funny touring companion. She’s 22, but much older, wiser, and more curious than that normally implies. I am (reservedly) more encouraged about our planet’s future.<br />
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After all the touring I could muster, we packed her stuff and headed over to Newburgh, where we had a really late middle-eastern lunch at Café Arazu, one of my favorites, before heading out to the country ’burbs where her next people were.<br />
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One of those rare good traveling moments—when not exactly traveling.<br />
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I always try to be aware of daily maintaining that travel “head”—the thing that makes you think people and things elsewhere are truly fabulous. Funny thing...people all around us every day ARE truly fabulous, we just don’t always notice on “normal” days, when we’re stressed out, bogged down in work, whatever.<br />
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I got an email from Christine earlier today and her header has an exclamation mark after her first! AND last! names. Assuming that was on purpose, but if it was a typo, it’s significant, because she’s one of those people that seems to live life full-out, leaning forward, welcoming the next surprise. Exclamation! mark!<br />
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Five hours after meeting her, it made me a little sad to drop off this fabulous stranger, who had become my new friend. Maybe I’ll see her again, maybe not. She lives in Florida. That doesn’t really matter. What matters is that we seized a really good day. Thank you Christine! Rigby! I’m happier to be alive because of you. You’re the best.<br />
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This morning as I was heading out on my bike, I noticed my rear tire was a little low. Ran in and grabbed the pump—back out no more than 10 seconds later, and this little fellow was perched on my front tire, seemingly out of nowhere.<br />
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I told him to wait while I grabbed a camera, which he clearly understood : )<br />
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Shot a dozen frames and he struck this handsome, heroic pose for me. Told him he could head back to whatever he was doing. He just sat there. Told him I needed my bike. He just kept sitting there. Clearly his understanding of English was not as good as I’d earlier thought.<br />
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Wasn’t sure if I should grab him and help find a roosting place, away from the stupid neighborhood cats, or if I should just leave him to his devices. His parents were nervously twittering around up in my trees by now, wondering what to do. (For any of you youngsters out there—this does not mean the birds were sending “tweets”—birds were twittering nervously for centuries before people took it up)<br />
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He finally made a few clumsy flying hops and wound up in some ivy on the side of the house, out of easy cat range. The cats in my neighborhood are so lazy, I doubt they would exert the effort to actually execute anything resembling a leap.<br />
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Maybe his parents helped him get up into a tree. Maybe a cat ate him as soon as I pedaled off. Ah, the drama of nature. Good luck, little buddy.<br />
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