{"id":3168,"date":"2017-07-26T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2017-07-28T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T21:35:07","slug":"bricolage-in-austin-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"bricolage in Austin NV"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fascination with cemeteries continues, each locale presenting novel styles and unprecedented content, enlarging my sense of cultural and temporal variety. <\/p>\n

\nEach image fits somewhere in an emerging construction, the outlines of which are pretty clear (having to do with the Memorial and<\/i> the Marmorial: with both the impulse to Remember and the [seeming] compulsion to make the Remembering as permanent as materials permit), but the details of linkage and explanation unfold bit by bit, as more images join the corpus. I’m not sure what the ultimate destination will turn out to be for this project, and it’s possible that it is in fact bottomless, but it proceeds site by site, and insight by insight.<\/p>\n

\nAs with so many others in my stable of enthusiasms, this project asks the question: How shall we account for<\/b> what we see, what we encounter? Each bit [image, text fragment, etc.] is a holographic fragment of a grand edifice, and each fragment is productively considered as fundamentally linked to every other. We may explore the bonds, the implications, the entanglements, but grasping the whole seems to be beyond our meagre and measly powers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cemetery (actually cemeteries: the Catholic Calvary cemetery and the Shoshone graveyard are adjacent but separate) at Austin NV (a 19th century mining boom town) includes these elements [click on an image to embiggen]: <\/p>\n

Basque surnames:

\"AustinNV20\"<\/a>