Coal City tornado sirens, and one that might be a bucket on a pole

Siren

the combination tunes the lock

the sun tunes the flowers

Snake - beads made from float copper and wood from Hurricane Ike, on wire and coming out of the wall (like a snake)

5/22/14

Afraid of the Dark

Man of Steel - used tornado siren

[also been thinking about Wolverine and the mirror the X-Men movies occasionally hold up to society]

warm side of the mountain

adret; noun

1. a mountain slope so oriented as to receive considerable light and warmth from the sun during the day

the physical presence of absence

Today I took some time to wander around the Greenmount Cemetery.
Undoubtably, this is the best grave marker in Baltimore. Elijah Jefferson Bond, "patentee of the Ouija Board".

I think I will need to do a performance at/on this grave... with a stone planchette.

Plus this gem. It is the top of a large marker/tomb that had a bonze grieve dropping bronze flowers on the grave covering. Most of the flowers have broken off - but there is an outline still from where they landed.

Olea Sancta

After teaching a lesson on Iconology where we discussed the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait and Mark Rydan's album cover artwork for Michael Jackson's Dangerous, I went to the library downtown to check out Zone One by Colscot Whitehead. When I came out, I decided to check out the Baltimore Basilica and ended up getting an impromptu tour from a guide. I was particularly taken by the (purposefully) rotting Cardinal's hat, the crypt, the feet of a dead man in a painting depicting the plague and it's effect on French soldiers near Tunis, and a small locked door labeled "Olea Sancta" in vinyl letters.

dead lakes

4/30/14
Dead lakes (are not new)

5/1/14
mummified squirrel (inside some human thing)
locust
hot sky quivers

5/3/14