Drinking Sculpture
Stepping out, or more like hobbling-out for the first time with the torn ankle, to see the wonderful Alighiero Boetti exhibition I had seen in London last November. In … Continue reading
Hotel Clarisse
Somewhere on the southern boundaries, beyond the tram lines, but before the péripherique, chasing one Porte or another, what could be the original Jacques Tati ludicrous formica Hotel, in all … Continue reading
The Winter Circus
The biggest truck you have ever seen pulled into Rue Crussot to discharge its cargo of caged animals for the Cirque d’Hiver. How it will negotiate its exit, presumably backwards … Continue reading
Un verre limé
We’re back again, almost a couple of weeks now. We are starting to walk off the last couple of Portes to be done, the unclear remnants of a self-invented project, … Continue reading
L’Atelier des Sourcils
I had seen it many times, but didn’t know what it meant, The Eyebrow Academy, even though I had used the phrase Sourcils des Poétes in other contexts. It … Continue reading
The Book Artist of Rue de Bretagne
We have our very own Book Artist on Rue de Bretagne. He has been here ever since we started coming in the winter, and he makes fan and bellows-like constructions … Continue reading
The Finished Boxes of Pencil Shavings
We finally divided up the 6B pencil shavings of Takesada Matsutani in small bundles of cellophane bags and fastened with a label with twisted wire to seal them. The … Continue reading
The Rotunda
Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s Rotunda, finished in 1788 and now marooned between the overhead metro, the boulevard and high-rises at Paris Stalingrad, has been restored in recent years. It is a … Continue reading
Éclairage
Just down the street is the wonderful Carnavalet Museum of the history of Paris. It is quite an unreconstructed place, and free, where you can amble and bump into things … Continue reading
Courbettes & Galipettes
I have often thought to find a new name for this occasional journal. At least a name at all, since Notes is a kind of cop-out at the best of … Continue reading
notes from an urban hibernation 