>new orleans and sacred seeds<
>+COLLAGE GRAPHIC 1993+<
>(early color xerography)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+DECEMBER 1738+
>francois jean baptiste valentin<
+VERLOIN deGRUY+
>young french marine officer<
>(grandmothers ancestor)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+DEPARTED VERSAILLE+
+1719 BIRTHPLACE+
>his fathers station as colonel in<
+LOUIS XIV+
>the king's personal regiment<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(>chateau magny fouchard<
>was their family abode<
+TROYES, FRANCE+
+ST. BERNARD+
>in the templar orient forest<)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ARRIVING NEW ORLEANS+
>via saint domingue<
+MARCH 1739+
^^^^^^^
>to packs of howeling rabid dogs<
>running wild in the night streets<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>vieux carre hurricane damage<
>was serious & wide spread<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+DREUX=ROY=DAGOBERT+
>merovingian blooded<
>cousins greeted him<
^^^^^^^^^^
+200 YEARS LATER I WAS PAINTING+
>age seven french scenes<
+BUILDING SHIP MODELS AND+
>fascinatedly visiting<
+FRENCH SUGAR PLANTATIONS+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>little did i realise what<
>life had in store<
^^^^^^^^
+TONIGHT'S PHOTOS+
>are taken of and from a single<
+METAPHYSICAL GRAPHIC+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>new orleans sacred seeds<
+FRENCH TROPIC SYNDROME+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>collage photo xerox graphic made<
+SEPT. 1993+
>in honor of my second l.s.u.<
>architectural exhibition<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>made in and around new orleans<
>express metaphysical factors<
+SPIRITUAL=CREOLE+
+G E N E T I C+
>fueling inner creative life<
^^^^^^^^^^^^
>camping was a vital part of life<
>for marian, our children and i<
+1970S=1980s+
>in the first two decades of<
>our years in california<
^^^^^^^^^^^
+PLONGEON=CATHERWOOD+
+STEPHENS HOMAGE+
^^^^^^^^^^
>we would return to louisiana<
>plantation jungles annually<
>searching sacred seeds<
^^^^^^^^^^^
>were a favorite focus of our early<
>summer photo safaris and this<
>creole plantation ruin was<
+BARATARIA+
>close to early degruy land<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+LOCUS OF THE DOME+
>(destroyed)<
+S U G A R+M I L L+
^^^^^^^^^
>was this installation i created at<
>tulane university in the years<
+1967-1969+
^^^^^
+THE RA CIRCLE & CHRISTIAN CROSS+
+WERE PRIMARY ICONOGRAPHY+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>intuitively i selected these symbols<
>it is only recently via research<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+THAT I DISCOVERED RAY+
+& DEGRUY HISTORY+
>filled with<
^^^^^
+MEROVINGIAN BLOOD+
+FIVE CRUSADES+
+JESUS HOLY SHROUD+
+RAY CASTLE=LERAY CHAPEL+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and<
+KNIGHTS TEMPLARS+
+SAINT BERNARD CLAIRVAUX+
+PRIORY de SION+
+ROUGEMONT MONASTERY+
>etc. etc, etc, etc, etc,
^^^^^^^^^^
+TO NAME A FEW FACTORS OF+
(>google: my degruy<
>subject essays<)
+SHEAR AMAZEMENT+
^^^^^^^^^^^
gene ray, lajolla, california
>eugene ray, mfa, architect<
>professor eneritus, sdsu<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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