John
At 09:18 AM 5/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Hello All--
am going to ask friend who works at huge place here in Milwaukee--making salads for delis and the never ending festivals begining this weekend with Pride Fest and going all summer until Indian Summer Fest in September--they are working overtime for sure!--will ask him re the ambrosia and go check out the deli counters-
going by your description i am pretty sure have eaten it at a grill out--it had a very non-organic taste and consistency--chemical, for sure! and a psychedilic appearance--in the Midwest there are so many events where one sees an immense array of jello art--there are even competitions--the uses of colors, fruits, shapings, molds--is astounding!--
a friend of mine in vermont used to make a brew he called ambrosia--homebrew he mixed honey into--the idea was to use it to wash down peyote buttons and spend the afternoon hobnobbing with the various manifestations of God/Goddesses--
since i work a lot in streets and alleys and in the past in yards and abandoned buildings, subway tunnels and underneath girders of railroad bridges--have had many encounters with the Law--and have had to dream up reasons for why i am doing what am doing--since i am not damaging property, i can't be charged with that--and trespassing is dubious--since an alley in a sense doesn't belong to anyone--sometimes i just say i am doing things for a class proejct--in art or in history--local history as use junk from milwaukee streets and sites--since had a show reviewed in the big daily paper last summer--i carry a moth eaten dog eared copy of it with me--and it explains in a rubber stamp way that i do indeed work in alleys and have indeed ben shown in a gallery--
work on smaller scales these days--when first started with the junk, built a huge monument out of all sorts of gleaming car and motorcycle parts, mylar, hubcaps, spray paint, dolls had found, broken radios and so forth--(it rose to abt twelve feet in height)- this was dedicated to the Italian chemist who had synthesized amphetemines in the 1920s--that was torn down by irate neighbors--they in fact trespassed!--to smash it to pieces--undaunted, i replaced it with a shrine to the espresso coffee maker--this lasted a little longer before again maruauding angry citizens took it into their beer and cocaine addled minds to savagely attack it--and lay it waste in ruins--which went into making further projects--this time in abandoned house--
so many tales one cd recount--sometimes the police, often concerned citizens of the officious and/or beligerant sort--yuppies i have found to be the most dangerous, always--the most oriented towards the sanctitiy of the material environment--in terms of possesion, ownership, surveillance--
then there are the outright dangerous ones--long long ago working away in a cul-de-sac--by a wall dimlit from grubby old streetlamps--was aware of two shadows growing ever larger before my eyes as working on section of a wall--soon and sure enough, could hear footsteps getting very near--two large threatening men--so whirled around and sprayed paint in their eyes--and left--to sounds of their screaming--served them right!--never interupt an artist at work!
on a more peaceful note, will go to the deli and calmly ask them about ambrosia--little will anyone know this is --"for an art project"! (fluxlist!)--
as if asked i will say it is for my "auntie's" upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the death of her first husband--which she was cleared of suspicion of in aiding his passage to the Better World--
("auntie" is legion--so many times here someone dubious being questioned as to their mission--and answering, it's for my auntie--someday i think auntie should have her most richly deserved shrine of her own!)
if i can find some images of ambrosia will send --i found recently a 1952 Borden's Eagle Brand Recipe Book--the photos, in color, are beyond surrealism--of the various cakes, fruit bearing concoctions--they look like pure plastic, in horrendous off-colors--some look like the colors on old De Sotos--and the post 1956 Nash Ramblers-
onwo/ards!
>From: Amy Baylaurel Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: re: ambrosia salad
>Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:44:15 -0700 (PDT)
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>can i buy THAT at the deli? maybe thats what we
>need..some alcohol fluxus art..i'd like to get drunk
>and run around re-arranging lawn
>animals/gnomes/ornaments on lawns....is it considered
>criminal trespass if it's art? amy baylaurel casey
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> > In a message dated 5/25/04 7:01:43 PM,
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> > > anyone done any ambrosia salad art?
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> > i made an ambrosia with apricot brandy for a party
> > once-we were all drinking
> > out of the bowl by the end.
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