Posted by Dee Ashley This is one of my favorite - possibly my favorite - photographer(s). Her story is incredibly tragic, but her artistic skill is phenomenal and I always felt that she was ahead of her time. I love her style. I think you’re the first person I’ve come across that even knows who she is! Edit: I published a photo years ago titled; “Ode to Francesca,” or something similar to that. I’ll have to see if I can dig it up.

I agree, and can see how she would be near the top of a favourite photographers list. If you find your photo I'd love to see it. Thanks for sharing :]

Posted by RAYGUN Anselm Kiefer the German painter and sculptor. who addresses destruction, recycling and rebirth within his art. Thanks for the John Fekner link ... just read an interesting quote by him. "No matter what the individual discipline, it is to an artist’s advantage to be progressive and challenge oneself by taking risks and explore beyond familiar territory." I had the wonderful opportunity to see a big exhibition of Gordon Matta Clark's art and documentation in Montreal sometime in the 1980's and was completely floored by his creative energy and use of abandoned buildings to carve out sculptural spaces. He was definitely a big influence on my art practice at that time in my life.

Thanks!
Watched the first 5 minutes of the documentary - neat so far. I like the mixed media work. I think it's funny the way he's carving away at the 'canvas', it looks exactly like painting and sculpting at the same time! I'll have to finish it later. That quote feels very universal. It's interesting how difficult it can be to explore new ideas even though, at least in my experience, it's often encouraged.
Wow, I envy you seeing that exhibition!

Just remembering seeing a while back that somebody in Detroit is hoisting abandoned boats up in an abandoned building and leaving them suspended and now I can't find any links to it.

Posted by dtewsacrificial http://www.getty.e...merican-born-1949/ John Divola did some stuff at George AFB and various abandoned beachhouses in SoCal, but his work almost always involved modification of the environment. We went to one of his talks in SF hoping to hear a better justification... but we came away with the idea that he was just a dick with which we would never associate. (Not to imply that he would associate with us... just a simple "fuck him" from our part.) But he is published and has had exhibits in serious institutions... so that's art, I guess. The "art" world =/= the UE world. We had the idea to try to undo his work at George AFB (which we found), but... same age-old argument about UE restoration. Also, too lazy to detour our desert trips for such an endeavour. That's obviously modification of the environment, which I have issues with. But on a more practical level, many abandoned places are heavily-polluted if not by the function of prior organization, but by the decay of structural materials that weren't particularly made to biodegrade with a low impact. I would be a bit loath to collect/eat an abandonment cabbage.

This is oddly timely because my friend sent me a post by John Divola just yesterday. I had never heard of him before and we were confused by the look of his beach house series. Neat to hear a personal story about him. I don't think I take as much issue with it as you do. But that is a solid point about practicality. I probably wouldn't eat abandonment cabbage either, but I wouldn't be mad about an abandonment flower or fern garden. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by uLiveAndYouBurn Just remembering seeing a while back that somebody in Detroit is hoisting abandoned boats up in an abandoned building and leaving them suspended and now I can't find any links to it.

That's cool, is this what you're talking about? https://wdet.org/p...itys-boat-culture/
I wonder what happened to the place when the installation was over.

Yes! thank you for finding that I wanted to see it again.