Grilling meats. Reconstructing Babel

I had the pleasure of partaking in a barbecue picnic this afternoon with some of my fellow printmakers. Amber and Alex hosted and made much of the food. There were delectable peanut butter cookies, refreshing dill coleslaw, some unseasonably juicy strawberries, Amber's home made ginger syrup that mixed delightfully into drinks, and the various meats on the grill.

Ben made some delicious chevre stuffed, bacon wrapped peppers. amazing

Tess then began to construct a twig sculpture, I followed in her lead and started adding sticks and twigs as well.

Soon, it reached higher


Ben, Alex, and Amber looked on encouragingly, sometimes proffering found twigs.


There was a strange, simple pleasure to this. We stacked and balanced, and no clear goal was ever contemplated. The action was the destination.

The wind, or our careless hands, would knock sections down, causing catastrophic domino effects. No matter. Build again

My camera freaked out and took this very cool picture all on its own.

Tess was the champion of the work



I swung by again, a few hours after we had left it to imbibe in Amber's beautiful apartment, to see how it fared. Still standing.




Song of the Day: Rapture, Blondie. - This was the first Rap song to hit number one on the US Billboard Chart, and the first rap song ever to play on MTV. Lee Quinones and Jean-Michel Basquiat both make appearances in the music video as the dancing graph artists. Way cool.