Granfalloon

I look at a  lot  of images when going through the archives -- enough to dry out my eyes and make my vision severely blurrier than normal by the end of the evening -- but this image caused me to silently 'Oooh' despite not often having much interest in clay sculpture. The image was found in the archives on a postcard for a 2001 show at The Clay Studio . According to the postcard the statue* is called Stargazer, is made of ceramic and acrylics, and was created by Beverly Mayeri. Oddly enough this does not seem to be one of Mayeri's more famous works of art as the only photograph I was able to find of it on the web is located on the artist's official website, unlike much of her other work which can be found anywhere from San Diego's School of Art and Design to Pinterest. (The image above is of the archived postcard and was taken by myself.) When I did look at Mayeri's website I was just a little surprised to see that her title for the piece is not Star...

This coming weekend is an important weekend for me because it is this weekend that I move out of my very first Philadelphia apartment and move into my second Philadelphia apartment... which happens to be pretty much up the street from my first one. The real significance here has nothing to do with the proximity of the two living spaces and everything to do with how important Philadelphia has become to me and why I absolutely had to create this blog. I grew up in New Jersey which means that for most of my life, I hated Philadelphia. To me it was just another city but it was farther away and less cool than New York. But I also had a unique reason to hate the place: my heart. More specifically, a heart defect I was born with that forced me into Philadelphia every so often so that I could visit CHOP which apparently has one of the best cardiology facilities in the country. So it became that my first memories of Philly are of laying in a dark room and having cold goopy shit spread ...