62 days: Blanket # 59: native universe

Tsimshian Face Mask

Polychromed wood | 7.75" x 7" x 4.75" | Dundas Collection | © Southeby's | New York

Blanket # 59:

• the Native universe
  
• the objects have power
• totem poles: three-dimensional family histories
• journeys from distant places
• marriages, births and deaths
• transformations
• heroic deeds
• identity: tribal, clan, family, individual
• the expression of: values, traditions, beliefs
• the sacred: the connection between human world and spirit world
• law, songs, dances, poems, stories, ceremonies, rituals
• the sacred relationship with the land: the seen and unseen forces around
• sacred places: mountains, oceans, rivers, lakes, valleys, plains
• the earth: flesh, blood and bones
• cemeteries: sacred ground
• earth, sun, stars and moon
• creativity: spirit, imagination, design
• a dream trail: of circles: of languages, stories, medicine, arts and teachings

63 days: Blanket # 58: rest

THE ROCK

Fragment of a Ritual | Omaha

unmoved

from time without

end

you rest

there in the midst of the paths

in the midst of the winds

you rest

covered with the droppings of birds

grass growing from your feet

your head decked with the down of birds

you rest

in the midst of the winds

you wait

Aged one

Adapted from Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, "The Omaha Tribe", in Twenty-seventh Annual BAE Report, Washington, D.C., 1911

Blanket # 58:

• time
• rocks
• rest

64 days: Blanket # 57: planting

today we planted the godot tree

it took a couple of hours

it was never a prop a piece of the set but a tree

and we planted it

[we didn't send it back to the garden centre]

a côtil in grouville because i have no garden

it was beautiful it is beautiful

the first tree i have planted in my life

a himalayan birch

 

why have waited so long...

Blanket # 57:

• planting trees
• waiting
• earth

69 days: Blanket # 52: roots

A country road. A tree. Evening.

I bought the GODOT tree... but I have no garden...

Betula Utilis Door | Jacquemontii

THE HIMALAYAN BIRCH

Deciduous | elegant | the Audrey Hepburn of Trees | apparently | relation of the native Silver Birch | oval serrated mid-green leaves turn yellow in autumn | requires full sun and well drained soil | height: 12 metres

Blanket # 52:

• a tree
• roots
• gardens

70 days: Blanket # 51: quartet

THE BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER

Queen Elizabeth Hall

The London Concerts 2011

Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

Soprano: Anna Prohaska

Piano: Bishara Harouni

STRING QUARTET

Violin: Guy Braunstein

Violin: Christoph Streuli

Viola: Amihai Grosz

Cello: Ludwig Quandt

PROGRAMME

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

String Quartet in C minor, D. 703

(Quartettsatz) 9'

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

String Quartet No.2, in F sharp minor, Op.10 (1907-8)

(with soprano) 30'

Gustav Mahler (1869-1911)

Quartet movement in A minor for piano and strings (1876) 11'

Arnold Schoendberg (1874-1951)

Chamber Symphony No.1 Op.9 (1906) 21'

Blanket # 51:

• quartet
• chamber
• symphony
• composition (Mahler)
• haunting
• nostalgic

Mahler | 28-bar sketch | Scherzo in G minor | Alfred Schnittke |1988

71 days: Blanket # 50: society

thank you for your society...