informal updates for my few readers

Thanks to all those FB Friends (as distinct from LJ Friends) who offered birthday wishes and/or made it to last night's more-or-less-on-time celebration.

As an update to my previous friends-only project of unserious self-mythologizing, here is my allegorical portrait upon my discharge from the hospital after my bout with pneumonia:




I wanted to see if it was possible to create an image that looked comically portentous while signifying nothing whatsoever. Photo courtesy of Seana Reilly.

I invite those of you within feasible physical distance to attend the opening of "In Your Dreams," the photography exhibition I juried from my hospital bed. Barring further unforeseen circumstances it is supposed to open on the Feast of Saint John Baptist, June 24, at Atlanta Photography Group Gallery in the TULA art complex on Bennett Street. The show should be appropriately dreamlike, though also containing a certain number of dream-oriented jokes to go along with the general air of mystery appropriate for the day so resonant in Freemasonry and in Central and Eastern European legend. (See, for example, Mircea Eliade's novel The Forbidden Forest, re the meanings of June 24.) I'd like to say I picked the opening date, but the gallery did, unaware of how suitable it was for a show devoted to photography about dreams and the unconscious and the symbols it generates.

Which presumably can include a biodegradable cup filled with fresh mint leaves....