stumped

as foretold, the stump collection- sign of life cut short, etc. etc. ^mount feake cemetery, waltham, MA.
iowa city had a curiously high percentage of stump gravestones, as well as a great deal of actual stumps and logs around. here are a few; one is under the superstition-worthy (and likely painted) BLACK ANGEL. i wasn't plucky/foolhardy enough to kiss it.

this cool hand was in a cemetery in andover, MA on the phillips academy campus. nothing like a shawl to calm one down before a job interview.
in maine at the moment. a bounty to come once near cords and scanners and such. til soon, summertime.

last of the spraypaints- iowa city aristosnack advocacya bit of yellow tragedy, green harbor, MA.
went to maine for the weekend to do all sortsa things. one of those things was a stop by randy reiger's storefront, the nupenny toy store. it's at 82 parris st. in portland. randy makes amazing sculptures that are 1950s rocket ship and space-race ephemera. they're great. stop by and peek in if you can. big props to ma taylor for knowing the spot!

FIGS from a tree near where the pigs live in new orleans. now i'm in iowa; spent the day yesterday picking raspberries, plums & peaches in alleys and admiring stump gravestones in iowa city. more to come, from the homefront.

backstreet cultural museum

first drop backdrop:
on a hot tip, went to the backstreet cultural museum. it's in the treme, has the largest collection of mardi gras indian costumes, and is home to the best boots i've ever seen- all beads and sequins sewn onto cardboard, sewn onto a pair of tennis shoes. gals dress in baby-doll costumes like this one to pay homage to the former red-light district.
every year each person in a tribe makes a new costume. this guy's costume last year had to do with the fleur-de-lis and its history, which includes being a common french slave brand. i was partial to this get-up...


robert made all of the costumes behind him.

a bit of beauty on every street in new orleans
in the colton school- a school abandoned after katrina, was once studios, now being gutted. amazing squares + light.