MILES DAVIS SOUND / haunted me in the sansouc forest

+LIVING IN OUR GLASS PAVILION+

+SANSOUCI FOREST STUDIO 1960 +

>(miles davis sound caused our<

>days to be very transcendent)<

+WAS A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE+

+FILLED W/ MUCH BEAUTY+ !

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>miles davis trumpet sound haunted<

>our radiant forest days w/ a paris<

>sophisticated transcendence as<

+(MARIAN & I BOUGHT+

+A MAGNAVOX HI-FI)+

>he had found paris ambience<

>was >best for his creativity<

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+PARIS WAS ALWAYS A NOLA+

>(cavaroc & degruy people<

>traveled to paris annually)< 

+ART & CULTURE PARTNER+ !

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 >miles davis was just one of many american<
>jazz musicians who found paris the perfect<
+(JAZZ WAS PLAYED IN PARIS /+
+TEMPLAR CELLERS IN 6th AR)+
>mise-en-scene for their transcendent sound<
>they played in my favorite section of paris<
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 >the old foucher-de bore plantation after the<
>nola cotton centennial exposition became<
+(TULANE UNIVERSITY HAD /+
+BEEN OUR FOUCHER LAND)+
>tulane university & audubon park where<
>marianne & i had lunch w/ mary lynn<
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 >synchronistically it was at tulane university<
>where i designed & constructed synergetic<
+(SYNERGETICS WAS BORN+
+ON OLD FOUCHER LAND)+ !
>color-light-energy environs in 1967-1969/<
>having started the work in the vieux carre<
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 >my old tulane architecture school colleague<
>bernard lemann phd discovered the odilon<
+(ODILON REDON SUPER+
+REAL >"FANTASTCS"<)+ !
>redon sketchbook the cavarocs owned<
>/ (this is now in the tulane u. archives)<
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 >synchronistically, a cavaroc descendent (me)<
>for some mysterious reason was observed in<
+(A UFO MOTHERSHIP /+
+HAD SOME AGENDA)+ ?
>1947 by a giant "mothership" above our<
>home / (a profound life changing event)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>tulane professor franz blum photographed in<
>his yucatan mayan field camp…many years<
+(MAYAN YUCATAN BECAME /+
+MY LIFELONG FASCINATION)+
>later i took a bus load of our students to visit<
>his talented widow,  gertrude (trudy) blum<
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 >these xerox printed mail art collage metaphysical<
>81/2" by 11"graphics were printed & folded (1/4)<
+(XEROGRAPHIC MAIL ART /+
+PROGENDERED THE BLOG)+
>& mailed to friends/relatives in manila envelopes<
>(the envelopes themselves became an art media)<
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 >in 1969 after moving to california i started<
>a large mail art photo collage metaphysical<
+(COLLAGE MAIL ART IS+
+AFFORDABLE & VITAL)+
>project focused on our nola creole history<
>based on thousands of nola photographs<
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 >french west african people in new orleans<
>have been very important to the culture &<
+(WEST AFRICAN ART /+
+VITAL IN OLD NOLA)+
>we must note it is s. west africa where<
>most of africa's radiant art is produced<
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 >the blue room of the legendary roosevelt hotel<
>in new orleans is where cousin neal and i took<
+(BEAUTIFUL BLOND MARIAN+
+RADIANT IN A BLUE DRESS)+
>our beautiful girl friends…in my case it was<
>for a sigma chi dinner…marian wore blue…<
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 >our dynamic great grandfather cavaroc was<
>a bank president, among other things & was<
+(CHARLES CAVAROC WAS+
+A MAN OF MANY HATS)+
>actually paid by the u.s. to try and begin a<
>vinyard in nola (an impossibility of course)<
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 >synchronistically, our ray, degruy, cavaroc & staigg<
>ancestors passed each other in this great (templar)<
+(DID THIS GENETIC MEMORY+
+SUGGEST MY "UNISPHERE")+ ?
>vaulted cotton centennial expo arboretum on the<
>old foucher plantation, (now tulane university)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>a few years latter this tensile structure out at<
>pontchartrain beach amusement park may<
+(RANNY TOOK ME OUT+
+FOR TENSILE THRILLS)+
>have suggested vital concepts to a ten<
>year old boy with >eyes wide open<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+"SOFTLY…AS I LEAVE YOU"+
>listen on youtube / frank sinatra<
>a magnificent piece to hear that<
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+HONORS ALL OUR LOVED+
+ONES NO LONGER HERE+ !
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>gratitude to friend, judge henley hunter<
>for an in-depth report regarding history<
+(JOHN RAY OF RAYVILLE+
+>>WAS IN THIS REGION)+
>of his people along the cane river in la.<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(see: eugene ray / john ray-"the alamo"<
>for a ray amazing but true la. history)<
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eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu