AUDUBON=LEONARDO=ST. BERNARD / easter gift essence memoir

+TROPICAL LOUISIANA+

>in the early nineteen fifties was a powerful locus< 

>for field trips in a 1942 plymoth doctors coupe<

>equiped w/ a voightlander camera and a very<

+BEAUTIFUL BLONDE+

>girl friend, searching for french family roots<

>(thanks to andrea for the leica war valor !)<

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+JEAN JACQUES AUDUBON+

>was one of several key artist and architects<

>that galvanized the itinerary of those early<

+CREOLE PILGRIMAGES+

>looking for the sacred seeds of genetics<

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+(AUDUBON ORGANICS+

+WERE VERY FERTILE)+ !

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>this is the lost oakley plantation as i found it<
>where audubon taught painting to beautiful<
+ELIZA PIRRIE = (JUNGLE LOVE)+
>and painted 32 of his famed bird paintings<
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 >the original brick paving was still there as<
+STATE "RESTORATION" HAS+
+SINCE REMOVED HISTORY+
>walked by audubon and eliza years before<
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 >a hurricane had recently ravaged the tropical<
+A POIGNANT ATMOSPHERE+
+OF LOSS WAS STRONG+
>jungle when we were on our early field trip<
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>years later in california i turned the early photos<
+GRUY-CHRIST INSTALLATION+
+REFLECTS EARLY RESEARCH+
>into metaphysical graphics section of my work<
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>i took marianne, my second wife, to oakley in<
+GRUE CRANE 1836, REFLECTS+
+HERITAGE OF THE de GRUY+
>recent years and she surprised me w/ this gift<

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 >architecture and inventions of leonardo have<
+GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+LEONARDO DA VINCI+

>fueled my gruy history and design research<

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>leonardo ufo like tank reflects radiant vision<
+UFO-ET LIKE VINCI VISION+
>as does the domed stage set machine below<
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 >in my estimation there is no artist-architect<
+TRANSCENDENTAL+
+MANIFESTATIONS+

>before or since superior to davinci's vision<

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 >this nightly blog was progenderd by packets<
+AFFORDABLE XEROGRAPHY+
+MADE THIS ART POSSIBLE+
>of mail art sent to many of you in past years<
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>homage to family and friends has fueled<
+ROBERT REICH Phd, L.S.U.+
+WIZARD OF PLANT LIFE+
>much correspondence art graphic work<
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 >extraterrestrial technology knowledge is very<
+(DJED PILLAR DEVICES+
+TO GIVE JIM $$$$$$$$ !)+
>high in my discoveries on this radiant earth<
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>famed shroud of turin and saint joan d'arc w/<
+ORIENT FOREST HISTORY+
>king rene d'anjou passed gruy chateau here<
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 >in the twelfth century saint bernard clairvaux<
+MAGNY FOUCHARD W/+
+MEROVINGIAN / GRUY+
+DAGOBERT (GOOGLE)+
>walked these streets with the early de gruy<
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+HIS ARCHITECTURAL VISION+
>my easter 2014 gift for you<
+BUILT MANY CATHEDRALS+
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eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu