COLOR / LIGHT / ENERGY / radiant architecture / brienne chateau

+ART & LIFE INTERFACE+

>is very important to me and >daily via this blog<

>i do my best to express this… >the lives artists<

>live has always been >vital to my research and<

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+ / TOULOUSE LAUTREC)+ 

>i remember in france visiting the ancient castle<

>of >toulouse lautrec's people w/ much pleasure<

>(poignant marks on wall / painter was shortest)<

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+ANDREW GOUGH+

>the rennes le château expert is also an >excellent<

>photographer and i am pleased we have become<

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+ / RENNES LE CHATEAU)+ 

>Facebook friends & have much to share…. > his<

>filming at rennes le château today very important<

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+GOLDEN BEES+

>(email just in from andrew >ref. behives in the area<

>near rennes le château / i responded about the vital<

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+VERGY / CHARLEMAGNE+

+and / GRUY / DAGOBERT)+

>conical volumes / golden bees are very special to<

>people of >merovingian heritage, like the degruy< 

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+AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL+

>(teilhard de chardin, s.j.)<

+ONLY FANTASTIC REAL+ !

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 >it is only now w/ the discoveries i have made<
>about our >ancestors "shroud of turin" history<
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+>> / GENETIC MEMORY)+
>that my diversion into christian symbolism at<
>tulane university has become understandable<
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 >my work in new orleans possessed the radiant<
>amplitude galvanized by that >ufo sighting of<
+(MY FRIEND JOHN MESSINA+
+WAS MY >CLOSE WITNESS)+
>1947 and linkage w/ the >french tropic energy<
>of maya research / >>the cross was different<<
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 >at sdsu in my invented new class "synergetic<
>environments" an entirely new art expression<
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+ / SYNERGETIC ENVIRON)+
>became evident and >only photography gives<
>us access to many magical moments 1969-96<
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 >art and life synergized in my silver ship<
>studio when color, light energy designs<
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+ / PICTORS REDSTAURANT
>like >pictors metamorphosis morphised<
>from >paper designs to our >3-d reality<
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 >earlier in the new orleans vieux carre a radiant<
>group of >three projects< were realized in the<
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+VIEUX CARRE PROJECTS)+
>middle of my >ancestors ancient french< reality<
>/ friend, john messina "american home" photos<
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 >i designed this >"entrance to san diego" a radiant<
>fiber optic tensile structure to be constructed over<
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+FIBER OPTIC GATEWAY)+
>freeway #5 near lajolla >for the city of san diego<
>it would please my shade if this is built some day<
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 >someday after i am gone, i hope the graphic<
>radiant >collage technique< i invented using<
>fluorescent surface paper photographed with<
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+> / PHOTO INVENTION)+
>u.v. light be published / i tried to get the s.d.<
>museum of photo arts to exhibit but no avail<
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 >in california the radiant harvest from silver<
>ship studio expanded the amplitude of the<
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+ / BIOTRONIC CONCEPTS)+
>color, light, energy >vision to include bio<
>tronics in spherical and conical structures<
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 >the exhibition at tulane university was the<
>culmination of ten years work in louisiana<
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+/ TULANE EXHIBITION)+
>and combined >slides of my architecture<
>plus the >crucifix installations< at tulane<
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 >i have many more photos of the explorer"s<
>gift shop" for the trailer brothers in the nola<
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+EXPLORERS GIFT SHOP)+
>vieux carre (if i can find them) this was the<
>first of the three projects in the vieux carre<
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 >i cannot remember who i >designed this family<
>room conversion from a garage for in a remote<
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+COLOR, LIGHT, ENERGY)+
>area in the st. tammany parish / >it is important<
>as the first of the >color, light, energy< projects<
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>in louisiana in the >sansouci forest studio<
>w/ its >japanese sea grass flooring i built<
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+>>/ SANSOUCI STUDIO)+
>radiant furniture to create a transcendent<
>world where the >jungle was synergetic<
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+>>/ DUKE de BRIENNE+
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>to discover the >duke de briene< chateau<
+(GRUY WERE >IN THE+
+BRIENNE REGIMENT)+
>only a few >kilometers north< of degruy<
>chateau magny fouchard was where the<
+(LOUIS XIV HID THIS+
+POUSSIN PAINTING)+
>poussin painting >"shepherds of arcady"<
>was taken after >louis xiv passed away<
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+BRIENNE MILITARY SCHOOL+
>(school< separate from<
>the huge chateau locus<
>of the poussin painting<
>see on >google maps)<
+WAS >NAPOLEAN'S SCHOOL+
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eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu