GIERSCHICKWORK: September 2006

Kitchen project ongoing...

Some shots from the past two weeks...

Me, laying down blue painters tape for the checkerboard...

Vicki, finishing up painting in the black squares...the "water", if you know what I mean...

Me again, rolling Fresh Mint on the laundry room walls.

There's much more than this, and more will be on the way. Our floor now has two coats of polyurethane on it, and is (still) waiting for the delivery of the washer and dryer.

The hookups for the washer and dryer are installed, so we should finally be able to do some wash this coming week!

Memorial: Kelly's anti-tecture

Thanx to www.tropolism.com and www.greg.org

The reconstructed text of a letter from Ellsworth Kelly to the Times' architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp:

"On October 19, 2001, I wrote a letter to you (that I never sent) in response to an article in The New York Times which discussed the controversy of what was to be planned for the `Ground Zero' space, asking artists and others for their opinions. (Two artists, Joel Shapiro and John Baldessari urged that no building be erected at the site,and the architect Tadao Ando made a similar proposition.)
"At that time, my idea for the World Trade Center site was a large green mound of grass. (When I saw the aerial photograph of the site on the cover of the Aug. 31 Arts & Leisure section of the Times, I was excited to see the site from this vantage point. I was inspired to make a collage of my idea for the space, which I am sending you.
"I feel strongly that what is needed is a 'visual experience,' not additional buildings, a museum, a list of names or proposals for a freedom monument. (These are) distractions from a spiritual vision for the site: a vision for the future."