Art Basel Miami 2013 - some big time prints & big name folk

The glory that was Art Basel seen from a rooftop garage

I'm not keeping to the blog making and posting schedule I thought I would do. 

Key West, where I am right now, is keeping me distracted. 

But as I try to deal with all my jpg's I've put together another 

packet of pictures from Art Basel Miami 2013.

There was an official magazine section at the fair.

The only place I saw the silkscreen mass-produced t-shirt, but it was a good one.

And then around the corner on that aisle were the only printmaking booths that I came across at the show, though I never made the trek through the whole thing. In a later post I'll show you some prints from these booths but first I'll wow you with some famous stuff:

Man Ray works

Shepard Fairey prints drew a big crowd. 

 

 

 

 

Curiously, these were some of the only pieces with the price stated right there for all to see.

Across the aisle this drew me in

A Warhol "acrylic and silkscreen on canvas construction"

and the maker of this?

Re-purposing my favorite Mobius-wear

I am trying to de-clutter my apartment and I have been going through some of my t-shirts. I have a lot of t-shirts and many are old old old, very worn, and I love to wear them.

Chris has been after me for about 5 years to get rid of this shirt in particular:

This is a "cyclist" shirt made by Tim Hunt and Karen Massey circa, oh, 2001? 2000? The shirts they made just got more and more comfortable, the fabric softer and softer and the design and colour always stayed true. As the shirt got older I started to use it as a "painting shirt". I have lots of shirts now, intended and unintended, that are painting shirts. This one just had so many holes that it was almost unwearable.

arm split open along the side

many different sized holes in the middle of the front

So what to do with this old favorite? I tried tossing it twice now and couldn't do it. So today I put it to work.

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 After ripping it, easily,  into long soft ribbons

I used it to tie my tomato plants up off the ground.  Shown here is the true success story of my garden:

Cosmonaut Volkov tomatoes, which I direct seeded  into the ground.   

I couldn't believe when they germinated in the poor garden soil, and I couldn't believe when they flowered, and now I can't get over the tomatoes growing on them!

The blue Mobius shirt was soft yet strong and I felt confident enough to tackle even the most sprawling of my tomato plants, the yellow cherry pear-shaped tomato. Look at this mess of blue t-shirt ties.

Next year I will do myself a favour and get the tomato cages. 

Really, I'm just trying to get through the gardening year this year.

 It's been a long long long time since I had my own garden. 

But, I'll make sure to have a few retired Mobius t's just in case.