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August 19, 2005
in the garden of the breadbox
about a month or so ago (prolly more, i'm really loose with time like that; to me everything seems like it happened a couple of weeks ago) i went to this really great show at mission 17 that consisted of about 50 dioramas. even the window was set up with cut-outs so that if you looked in from the outside, the gallery itself became a diorama. stokedness!!! through a series of incidents, i came into contact with the woman who curated the show, and one of the artists, who turn out to be housemates. last night i went up to potrero hill to hang out with them in their garden. rebecca told me that i would be going up a little hill when i got let off by the bus. i was wondering what big meant to her by the time i'd hit mariposa with a mere 4 blocks to go
then, i got to the part of the street where the house shoulda been, but it seemed to kinda just end, and i wondered about that too....
yet, low and behold, there was more street beyond that rock!
and wouldn't you know it, they live in this super cute house
the ladies told me they'd been told by the owner/sister of the owner that it was originally built as temporary housing after the 1916 earthquake, and supposedly the front part of the house is built of cardboard. what i really loved about it, but did not take picts of, is how rad the inside is. it'a a nooks and crannies house, with little rooms here and there. it is the coziest house i think i've ever been in! this was completely enhanced by the company, who handed a starving me a bowl of tofu fried rice practically the moment i stepped into the kitchen. i can't believe i even left that place!!!
now, the secondary reason i went up there was to experience the garden of the bread box. it was beautiful! even if it was a foggy evening, it was so wonderful to be outside in a personal garden.
here we see libby and ben, who also live at the house. libby is the woman who curated the diorama show. she and ben are honing their skillz with chinese throwing stars.
rebecca has a vegetable garden going in one part of the larger garden. here she's showing a mini-carrot to me, which i think is so adorable, and which i hope to be able to attempt to grow at some point in the future. i was told there had been tomatoes, lettuce, chard, and something else i'm forgetting. there were snow peas coming in, and i believe the next things to go in will be potatoes and beets.
now, as if a wonderful place to relax while surrounded by flowers and vegetable gardens and hummingbird/butterfly gardens weren't somehow enough, let me assure you that you that there's this weeping willow looking tree that you could lounge under
and you could get your fig on too!
the evening was so much fun! we talked an aweful lot about a lot of stuff. i saw some of the projects that rebecca's made, including a quilt she made for ben, that was a tribute to his truck(rip) showing all the routes it had taken accross the u.s.. the backside was made up of a bunch of different sweatshirts. now that's some love through skillz right there. of course, i didn't get a pict cuz, well, you know how i can get caught up in a thing by now, dontcha? i saw this awesome train that lily and ben had made for a movie that ben shot at their house(why would they ever leave?). we also talked about how they all met, how they got the house, the types of areas where they like to be creative, motivations in our personal lives; just good, enjoyable, and engaged conversation. it was one of those evenings where everything's so nice, it seems incredible that it just keeps getting better, but somehow it does. so. rad.
i feel like i left that house with major, major bounty... YARG! turns out libby's worked in bead stores for a while, and had this awesome case of all these beads(i'm currently using the plastic ziploc method, myself...HA!). she so hooked me up with some wonderful strands of beads, of which i will not provide pictures. i'm gonna make a couple of things over the weekened, and show them off that way. rebecca gave me the breadbox diorama she made for the show at mission 17. i didn't have time to put it where it "belongs" in my apartment last night, but i had to take a couple of picts of the garden in a breadbox when i got home. (thanks a gazillion for the ride home last night libby!)
enter the breadbox
to find the garden
and having nothing to do at all with what i've just written, but everything to do with what i was listening to when i wrote what's just been written, LES NEGRESSES VERTES. you know you gotta check'em....
VIVA FRIDAY Y'ALL!!!
Posted by Meagen at August 19, 2005 05:03 AM
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heh, I like Les Negresses Vertes too. :)
Posted by: oshare at August 31, 2005 07:07 AM