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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+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)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>(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)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >"synergetic environments" at sdsu<
+(PHOTOS OF WORK+
+WAS >CINEMATIC)+
>was dave fobes favorite 70s class<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >my best work was so "futuristic" it was<
+(CINEMA MISE-EN-SCENE ?+
+ACTUALLY MY #1 DESIGN)+
>often seen as a setting for docu-cinema<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >my favorite prototypes were those where<
+(ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA+
+CINEMATIC DOCUMENTA)+
>biotronic energy was an important factor<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>as you know this blog is very experimental<
+(METAPHYSICAL ART+
+BLOG IS CINEMATIC)+
>i only hope >posterity shall treat it kindly<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                     
 >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)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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"<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >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<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+LESSON HERE IS THE >LINK+
+BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE+
>(my universal spheroid<
>house incorporated an<
>omnimax >projector)<
+& CINEMA / FASCINATING+
+WITH >MUCH POTENTIAL+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+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)< !
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eugene ray, mfa architect
professor emeritus, sdsu

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