Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective state, conscious or unconscious, of being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes (from Wikipedia). That is what it is like to be in New Orleans. There is just something about that city that is like no other. I felt like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole into another world of reality. For me it is a city unparalleled in its music, food, art and soul.
(all photos taken with my iphone)
Treme Creole Gumbo Festival featuring the actors from the HBO Treme show
Friday night on Frenchmen Street at Snug Harbor with Ellis Marsalis
3-6pm half price oysters everyday at Luke
John Boutte at d.b.a., the composer of the Treme theme song...he doesn't sing the song, he is the song!
The Contemporary Arts Center had some wonderful work...including
Kyle Bravo, 2011 Self Portrait, "Reaching"
Club S & S (Stephen Paul Day & Sibylle Peretti), suicide notes, 2011; Mixed Media on napkins
PhotoNola had many offerings for the weekend including a photogravure demonstration at Josephine Sacabo's studio and a Tintype exhibit at HomeSpace Gallery, which included a wet plate demonstration.
Josephine Sacabo giving photogravure demonstration
S. Gayle Stevens speaking about her work at HomeSpace Gallery
Bruce Schultz giving a wet plate demonstration
and I happily went home with a tintype portrait