The juxtapositions thread was born at the San Francisco airport April 14, 2003. I was killing time at a news stand waiting for my flight back to Seattle when I noticed George Foreman’s “Guide to Life” next to Suze Orman’s “The Laws of Money; The Lessons of Life.” The Orman/Foreman rhyme and the life/life themes inspired me to whip out my digital camera (photo at right). A few minutes later, I came upon a photo exhibit called “Six Degrees of Fabrication: Old World/New World Sites and Sights.” Below are photos of those photos (most of them arranged in diptychs; sorry about the glare).
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Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, Barcelona |
Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, California |
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EGYPT ONCE REMOVED |
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Obelisk and Church in Rome |
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada |
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MONOLITHS |
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Avebury Circle, Wessex, England |
Carhenge, Alliance, Nebraska |
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ARMLESS LADIES |
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Venus de Milo, the Louvre, Paris |
Liberty Gets a Hand, Las Vegas, Nevada |
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A Saint Looks Down on Madrid |
Borofsky’s Clown, Venice, California |
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By the time I got home from SF, this idea was firmly planted in my head. So I was seeing juxtapositions everywhere, like this one: my brother Eric’s face and the baboon’s butt above him in a painting at the Ebb Tide (a great breakfast joint in the Mission).
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