Word: primavera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a cluster of them and you could almost imagine the room was filled with figures that are half-human, half-tree, but all energy trapped beneath the wood surface. This exhibition in Hilles consists of smooth-oiled spruce statues and murals with names like Frozen Banner or La Primavera or Full Orchestration. They are abstractions of abstractions, the work of an artist who declares "I never knew an artist in my life". They are a perfect symbiosis between function and form...
...with their rhythmic compositions and to feast your eyes with more substantial fare--knotty wood with the nails and lumbermarks still showing. This self-conscious structure belies the seemingly organic and hence (you might have thought) unconscious "growth" of, say, the bud-like forms at the top of La Primavera. This is a tall square column, 9-10 feet tall with cut-out semi-circles of wood interlocked in a restrained yet powerful abstraction of spring. It seems like a plant about to blossom, with tremendous energy beneath the surface of a green bud--enough to create a flower...
...blew her a kiss from the doorway. "And when 'La Primavera' is done, we will get married," he said, and split for his work...
They found a tiny bungalow on a treeless back street in Costa Mesa. Sam went back to blaming out "La Primavera" but it was already October in his blood and he couldn't concentrate. The new neighbors were friendlier than the old, convinced as they were that Sam was running a clandestine body shop in his garage. Everyone on Azulinda Avenue did something shady for a living, so the young Bollos at 1239A fit right...
...stopped several places, but the hogans were dark and the hearths cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your...