Ethos of Making
With the return of rain in the forecast, the apple farmers are making piles of trimmings from a later than usual winter pruning. Delaying the blossoms this way helps to ensure a healthy crop and timely harvest of apples this fall. ivermectin cream long term use ???? ???????? These trees are not sprayed, so the green wood is excellent for smoking, and carves well when cured. ivermectin 6 mg tablet dosage ?????? ??????????
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Traditional menusiers of West Africa will travel great distances on foot to find naturally bent crooks from trees or rootstock grubbed from the marigot. From these, they fashion two things primarily, similar in form but close to opposite in function. Hoes are the main products, usually with a hand-forged iron blade, but occasionally with a wooden one if the stock is adequately hard.
At dawn during the seasons of cultivation or harvest, men of the village hustle off to the fields, their hoes slung loosely over one shoulder, the handle’s natural curve designed to rest gently against the small of the back. ??? ???? ????? ?? ???????? Hands are free to swing while walking and to gesture to elders during elaborate morning greetings. ???? ????? ??? ???? Like the ubiquitous coup-coup, or machete, the hoes are a multi-purpose tool, used as often for building up earth mounds to grow yams as they are for breaking apart and mixing soil, termite mounds and cow dung to make banco, an earthen building material.
The second product of the menusier’s crook is a market stool, used by village elders too old to squat without some support when socializing on market days. Apart from a prominent chair for the local chief, these are often the only seating structures to be found. ???? ???? ????? ??? ???? When a farmer has reached an age and level of prosperity, and no longer actively cultivates, he may still be seen with the familiar ‘hoe/stool’ over the shoulder on the way to the market, walking in pairs, talking and dressed in the finest boubou. As he squats by the chukatu lady, ready for the day’s first calabash of millet beer to be ladled, he deftly tucks the stool between his lowering body and the ground in a relaxed but precise gesture.
For the prosperous farmer, the same shape passes from being an implement of work to being a prop for leisure and emblem of prestige. The market stool is a good example of how when something is no longer useful, its shape can retain symbolic significance.
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Are sand castles the same all over the world? If so, what are their common traits?
Ene and I began the week in Oakland’s China Town preparing for a rush of meetings and site visits for a fast-tracked public art project. It was Chinese New Year and the cacophonous stutter of firecrackers cleansed the streets and businesses of evil spirits, their exploded carcasses littering lovely patterns on the sidewalk.
As we prepared our proposal back at our studio compound, the fair weather continued to push a reluctantly welcome early spring, with the camellias at their peak and many new plants in bloom, including:
The Christmas camellia (camellia sassanqua)
A variegated vinka, or periwinke
and the azeleas, all of which helped ease the pressures of an intense week.
Though in decline in practice across the world, the patterns of seasonal subsistance still capture the imagination, evidenced in this image from the Sacramento River Delta, culled from the archives of the Department of Fish and Game. I’m interested in reviving this scale of self-sufficiency. *
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The meadows and I are fully in clover right now.
I was recently invited by Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb to submit a drawing for the publication of their upcoming book and accompanying exhibition, Visionary Architecture (title pending):
“Visionary Architecture will concentrate on un-built (impossible or speculative) structures that exist on paper. This project begins with an invitation to a wide range of participants, including artist, designers and architects of renown, as well as those presenting ideas for the first time. a buon mercato ivermectin The book will reveal an array of works that convey alternatives, byproducts, expansions or critiques of one’s environment. ivermectina e albendazol juntos The book will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Cribs to Cribbage, which will begin at Mass MOCA in March 2009 and expand throughout the year. The book, together with the exhibition, will highlight many visions that exist outside of established channels of production, and conventions of design. what breeds are sensitive to ivermectin? “
I categorized my submission as ‘folly’ and described it as follows:
“The Incline House is one of a series of seasonal, situationist structures, combining the sybaritic delights of contemplative sitting, meandering conversation and mindful motion so essential to a lazy summer evening.”
I would love to have a building that combines the semi-public, screened front porch and the semi-private rocking chair/porch swing, having spent my formative years lost in conversation/contemplation on front porches.
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