WHO ARE WE - WHERE FROM & GO / what did we do & learn

+ALICE PITOT+

>was my >mother's childhood friend who<

>my mother spoke about fondly for many<

>years and i have only now >understood<

>the link w/ our mother's cavaroc family<

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+THE PITOT PLANTATION+

>house on the cover of >"louisiana architecture<

>1714-1830" was the >ancestral home of alice<

+(PITOT HOUSE WAS >A+

+>WEST INDIES< TYPE)+

>pitot..>(the home of a mayer of new orleans<

>whose daughter married into cavaroc fmly)<

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+PLANTATION MEMORIES+

>haunted my youth and by 1950 i was<

>spending many sundays w/ my girl<

+(MARIAN OLSEN RAY+

+>BECAME< MY WIFE)+

>friend in a 1942 plymouth doctors<

>coupe photographing plantations<

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>(NOTE see end note ref invitation<

>by friend, eric lloyd wright to the<

+(WRIGHT WAY ORGANIC+

+> / RESOURCE CENTER)+

>pot luck next weekend in malibu<

>(eric, architect grandson of fllw)<

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 >pitot plantation house on bayou st. john in<
>new orleans is owned by the city of new<
+(>de GRUY<, FOUCHER, de+
+BORE HOUSES >SIMILAR)+
>orleans and has been well restored / this<
>house is similar to early degruy houses<
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 >eugene ray, apprentice archt. baton rouge<
>2 years after reading fllw "natural house"<
+(EUGENE RAY  >1950<+
+APPRENTICE ARCHT)+
>about 3 years after seeing ufo mothership<
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 >yes, that is your nightly correspondent @ top,<
>about 18 years old at the beginning of a search<
>for >ancestral plantation houses similar to the<
+(3 YEARS LATER FATE+
+SMILED UPON ME AS I+
+BUILT  >2 CHAPELS<)+
>"magnolia mound" house (bottom) @ baton<
>rouge as i >photographed< it on weekends<
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 >"synergetic environments" at sdsu<
+(PHOTOS OF WORK+
+WAS >CINEMATIC)+
>was dave fobes favorite 70s class<
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 >my best work was so "futuristic" it was<
+(CINEMA MISE-EN-SCENE ?+
+ACTUALLY MY #1 DESIGN)+
>often seen as a setting for docu-cinema<
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 >my favorite prototypes were those where<
+(ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA+
+CINEMATIC DOCUMENTA)+
>biotronic energy was an important factor<
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>as you know this blog is very experimental<

+(METAPHYSICAL ART+

+BLOG IS CINEMATIC)+

>i only hope >posterity shall treat it kindly<

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>the >design and construction< of those two<

>chapels was because 2 kind professionals<

+(MY WORK >FLOWED OUT+

+AS PROFESSIONALS SAW+

+HOW MUCH I >LOVED IT)+ !

>kaarlo oivanki, archt, & don chaisson saw<

>how much i loved design & urged me on<

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 >new orleans , the >city of our ancestors< w. st<
>patrick church, foreground, where >eugene ray<
+(19TH CENTURY >NEW+
+ORLEANS OVERVIEW)+
>(1st) married lucy verlion degruy and cavarocs<
>married pitots in the st. louis cathedral (distant)<
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 >william woodward's early 20th century painting<
>of a covington garden is profound / he taught at<
+(ORGANIC PLANT WORLD+
+OUR >GREATEST ASSET<)+
>tulane w/ my bresse artist ancestors where i was<
>awarded my mfa & i love his >"plant kingdom"<
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 >voisin plantation house means much to me<
>located on the mississippi river near degruy<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>>> / VOISIN FAMILY)+
>plantations the family relates to fascinating<
>chapters of degruy knights templar history<
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 >the sad slavery of the french african people<
>is a terrible shadow on the history of french<
>people in the west indies & the mississippi<
+(SEE MY IMHOTEP VIDEO+
+POSTING ON FACEBOOK)+
>valley / at tulane >i wrote a paper< on the<
>great contributions african talent gave us<
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 >this blue egret audubon print was a surprise>
>gift from marianne to me & represents the<
>organic world< of the >french and african<
+(GOOGLE :>> EUGENE RAY /+
+JEAN JACQUES AUDUBON)+
>pioneers who struggled on the plantations<
>to provide blue indigo to european people<
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 >my friend and lsu alumnus the talented<
>photographer-architect john messina<
+(NAPOLEON HOUSE+
+BY JOHN MESSINA)+
>surprised< me w/ this >photo of my<
>favorite new orleans mise en scene<

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+LESSON HERE IS THE >LINK+

+BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE+

>(my universal spheroid<

>house incorporated an<

>omnimax >projector)<

+& CINEMA / FASCINATING+

+WITH >MUCH POTENTIAL+

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+GRATITUDE+

>to old friend eric lloyd wright and the<

>taliesin fellowship for kind invitation<

>to a >pot luck this weekend but we<
+(ERIC LLOYD WRIGHT+
+MASTER ARCHITECT)+
>sadly have previous commitments<
+(APPRECIATE RAINCHECK)< !
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eugene ray, mfa architect
professor emeritus, sdsu