the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

recent descents into melancholia

(music-wise)maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das platinzeitalterwilliam basinski: shortwave musicearth: hibernaculumarve henriksen (with helge sten & stale storlokken): strjoniron & wine: worksjóhann jóhannsson: ibm 1401, a user´s manual (esp. the track: the suns gone dim and the sky's turned black)roy orbison: best of earth: hibernaculum maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das