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The Marsh April 21, 7:30 PM San Francisco, Mission District

Isabel Reichert & Sean Fletscher wrote an experimental theatre piece called:
"Performance Art In Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining".

One night, one time only, called a "Rising".

I had the pleasure and the leisure and the interest to take part and entice several others around me to join.
Susie, Steffi, Sarah it was great to see you all there.

We sat in the aisles of "Press" and took part in the envisioned and imagined LAST ARGUMENT of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta.

Or shall I say FIGHT
or shall I say CONVERSATION
or shall I say MISUNDERSTANDING
or shall I say JUDGEMENT
or shall I say TIT FOR TAT
or shall I say NEGATIVE THOUGHT EXCHANGE

or what ever the hell you call the
TALK, the "opening of your mouth
and resemblance of words pour out of it",
between two beloveds,
six months after they were married.

If you ask me, what I know, is that at the end
when everything
was said and done,
the night over,
the new dawn rising,
the MAN, Carl Andre ALIVE
and still is today
and his much younger WIFE
was DEAD.

Ana Mendieta was found at the bottom
of the couple's apartment.

Apparently
Ana Mendieta
fell,
was thrown,
was pushed,
jumped from fear,
(suicide is out of the question)
from the couple's 34th apartment window
on September 8, 1985.

Mr. Carl Andre was acquitted of second degree murder 1988.

Both Phillipe Coquet and Carla Pauli had moments of brilliant acting.

Dharma in the Desert

One with Nature:
with awe I look upon thee.
Simplicity. No culture conflict,
no language needed.
How does nature look at me?
She says," I chew you up and spit you out as plumes of ash!"
Love you
Martina

Ode To Sultan

MLK Day last week marked the Memorial Service for the late Larry Sultan at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Outstanding speakers, i.e. Jim Goldberg and SFMOMA's curator of Photography Sandra Phillips, as well as many colleagues of the California College of the Arts. Vivid words illuminated the life and work of an artist whose world we shall now only know through his fantastic photography. A communal bottle of Wild Turkey booze was passed to the mourners.
I graduated from the S.F. Art Institute in 1987 and Mr. Sultan was one of the most instrumental and influential photography teachers I witnessed.
Kelly, his beloved, wrote what he said shortly before he died. I will paraphrase it here. “I am happy that I have touched “CULTURE” ever so featherly.”



Here are my musings

About this great loss to the art world:



Ode to Sultan



Myself, a star

Of the expanding

Constellation in the

Sultan Orbit.



The eloquence of a mind

Reflects in luminous images.



Flirting with the edge to

Endure the inferno - life.

Capture the quality,

Absurdity.



A sweet and sour

Wicked sense of humor

Holding the Key to the Kingdom.



Above all

Anxiety;-

Provoking

Art

Conceptual,

Yet

So, so personal. Martina Konietzny M.F.A. 1/23/2010

Mountain dew!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Look at my beautiful Mother-in-Law, her Mother "Mom" turned 96 1/2 years old and both are beautiful puritan pioneers who stuck with family and their country. Both highly educated they forged the way for all of us coming after them. True revolutionaries with warm hearts and a sense of family which is admirable.