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In Honor Of The Taxpayers Who Funded It And Built It!  Boston, Massachusetts, USA [photo source: BIC Gallery] threat level 4.26.2003
In The Shadow Of A Bridge, Sculptor Found Transcendence. Is Cate McQuaid operating her blog under a nom de plume? I can not find it under the name Cate McQuaid. If you've driven through The new Northbound Taxpayers' Tunnel up onto The Taxpayers' Bridge, you know that moving up the slope of the bridge between those magnificent suspension cables must be like entering the gates of heaven -- if only there weren't so many other taxpayers in cars along side you doing the same thing. Bridges spark our imagination. They often carry us over what we could not cross ourselves. They have the same magical qualities of all liminal structures, such as gateways and portals, marking a transition from one landmass, or one state of being, to another. In their architecture, they also have the opportunity to define a place. They soar skyward; they welcome. When the southbound side of The Taxpayers' Bridge opens, it will be a majestic entryway to the city just as now, northbound, it suggests a heavenly escape from it. The late sculptor Christopher Wilmarth lived in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge; when he turned 20 in 1963, his future wife wrote a birthday message for him under the raised railing of the pedestrian walkway, right in the center of the bridge, adding a twist of romance to the majesty. The Nielsen Gallery has put together a show of Wilmarth's drawings and sculptures inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. Wilmarth, who also has an exhibition up at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard through June 29, was a classically modernist sculptor. He worked in glass and steel, crafting eloquent constructions of light and shadow, translucence and opacity. His sculpture "Gift of the Bridge" stands at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, but there's a half-size maquette of it here, about 3 feet square. At its center, a square of greenetched glass rises in the embrace of black steel. The steel acts as a spine, anchoring one side of the glass, but it also reaches and folds around the square like the arms of a lover. It's a poem of simple planes, and of contrasts like dark and light, steel and glass. Like the bridge, it soars but it's anchored; like the bridge, it spans -- but conceptually, not physically. A series of "Gift of the Bridge" drawings echo the towering grace of the Brooklyn Bridge With Ashleigh Banfield, as well. They feature a form massive at the bottom and spirelike at the top, but the whole piece, drawn in graphite and watery ink, seems to float. Near the top, Wilmarth cuts a jagged section from the paper, barely visible because he mounts the drawing on another sheet. But that negative space suggests a skyline and gives the liquid, ethereal form a light but precise definition. Wilmarth took his own life in 1987 at the age of 44. The Brooklyn Bridge was just one of his muses (no doubt his wife was another). The transcendent quality of the bridge resonates in the artist's work, which is filled with hope and light. Visions of architecture. Boston photographer Eric Lewandowski's black-and-white, multipanel images of bridges and other structures, and Ezra Stoller's black-and-white photos of iconic modern architecture constitute the first show at Gallery Kayafas, a new photography gallery in the South End. The new venue brings the gallery count at 450 Harrison Ave. up to a dozen. Lewandowski's "Old Colony Bridge, Fort Point Channel, Boston," shot in 1996 before the bridge was torn down, stretches over four panels, making the workaday cantilevered drawbridge into something grand and impossibly long. At either end, the bridge stretches toward infinity, but at the center it gathers up in a skeleton of iron and concrete. The arc and rhythm of the images pay tribute to a structure that might otherwise be easily forgotten. Stoller, 86, has spent decades photographing architecture. It's not an easy job; capturing the three-dimensionality of a building and the way it operates in space, and the way people move within and around it, takes as much vision as it does skill. Stoller has just put together a book of his images (published by Palm Press, run by Gus Kayafas, the husband of Arlette Kayafas, who runs the gallery). From the Guggenheim Museum to a parking garage in Florida, these images are both economical and generous, showing off the daring imaginations of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Eero Saarinen. A stream of life. After months of renovation, Bernard Toale has opened his bigger, grander gallery on Harrison Avenue with a meaty group show curated by Joe Amrhein of Brooklyn's Pierogi gallery and a video installation by Hisham Bizri. For "Vertices," Bizri videotaped for 24 hours in three cities: Dublin, Seoul, and Beirut. Then he edited all the footage to less than four hours. He shows it on three separate screens, or on the wall in one long image, often of three scenes fused one beside the next. The three scenes show the same image, at slightly different angles or times. First I saw a mosque, then a Catholic church, the buzz of chanting giving way to organ sounds and singing. "Vertices" portrays the stream of life, and it envelops the viewer in sounds and striking, kaleidoscopic images. It's hypnotic. Amrhein has a taste for a certain kind of drawing -- the accumulation of marks into something mind-bogglingly intricate. You can see it in Dawn Clements's "Shelves," a simple and seemingly endless ink drawing of shelves in her home, and in Dan Zeller's tiny precision drawing, "Finite Extrapolation," a phantasmagoria of morphing masses and networks. There's other interesting work, including Jonathan Herder's "Falling Branch," a collage made of tiny bits of postage stamps; Robert Lazzarini's sculptures of elongated cigarette boxes projecting from the wall; and Patrick Jacobs's untitled diorama built into the wall behind a baseball-size lens. There's no overarching theme to Amrhein's show, but it's good fun. Christopher Wilmarth: Gift of the Bridge At: Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newbury St., through May 3. 617-266-4835. Ezra Stoller and Eric Lewandowski: Modern Architecture and Urban Places At: Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Ave., through May 4. 617-482-0411. Hisham Bizri: Vertices and Pierogi Presents: The Best of Brooklyn Comes to Boston At: Bernard Toale Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., through May 10. 617-482-2477. 4.15.2003
Johnny Cheese For President. Breaking News... Positioning himself as "the universal write-in candidate for all 'elections' (so-called) taking place on the planet", Johnny Cheese says he's running for "president of the United States" (so-called). Johhny Cheese: "I officially announce my candidacy for president of the United States today - on Tribute Day. I intentionally planned to announce my candidacy on Tribute Day. My running mate is Lysander Spooner. We guarantee, guarantees are better than promises, for as many US Federal Reserve Note fiat currency units as you wish, that, if we win, we will not show up to work. Which means we will not coerce you. How can I, Johnny Cheese, guarantee that - and back it up with no less than any amount of fiat currency units of your choosing, you ask? Because I am just a figment of your imagination... and Lysander gave up the ghost in May of 1887. What is less dangerous, 'voting' for someone who is just a figment of your imagination or 'voting' for some who plays the game for real?" To learn more about Johnny Cheese, the universal write-in candidate for all 'elections' (so-called) taking place on the planet, visit VoteJohnnyCheese.com 4.9.2003
Taxpayer Reduction Through Extreme Decimation. "You are about to read much neglected truths pertaining to this bizarre new pneumonia-like illness called SARS. Agents of the taxpayers explain this acronym for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as simply the latest 'threat' in an ongoing series of attacks on taxpayers by mysteriously mutating 'super-germs.' Yet, a careful study of this multi-disciplinary subject reveals something amiss far more insidious and deadly than SARS. This spreading scourge of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome stretching from the taxpayers dwelling on the landmass called Asia to the taxpyaers dwelling on the landmass called North America has all the earmarks of a novel social experiment in taxpayer manipulation aimed to culture the mind for the arrival of "the Big One"-a biological agent that will facilitate decimation of approximately a third to half of the taxpayer population, in keeping with the agents' current taxpayer reduction objectives." 4.7.2003
Operation Enduring Aaron Brown. ...while agents quietly install a software patch my brain.  "It's hard to leap across agents who have software patches in your head." EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: See Aaron Brown: War Porn Censor. Underneath the framed and orchestrated pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey blame game that fired up during the last week of March -- as a "story" on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS -- between the various agents dwelling on the landmass called Washington ---as in, HOW COME THIS KITTAADP (Killing Iraqi Taxpayers, Their Agents And Destroying Property) IS MOVING SO SLOWLY AND HOW COME THERE ARE MORE DEAD AND INJURED US AGENTS THAN WE IMAGINED AND WHO CAN WE HOLD RESPONSIBLE--- here is the most likely truth: Key agents planning the kittaadp knew all along this was going to be a nasty kittaadp. They just kept it to themselves. Which raises an important topic. All those volunteering taxpayer "reporters" that the agents deputized and then placed with those agents who operate weapons on, over, and near the landmass called Iraq can have one of two possible effects: If the kittaadp is going like a knife through butter, then most of the taxpayers - sitting on the landmass called USA and watching, say, the CNN broadcast on their TVs, are pleased as punch. If the kittaadp is bogging down, every image sent back re-enforces THE PROBLEM. If the agents - or the majority of them - who planned the kittaadp knew how nasty the kittaadp was going to be, then why did they allow all those deputized taxpayer "reporters" to hunker down with the US agents who operate the weapons and who are responsible for excuting the killing and destroying (under "orders" of course) - on 87 locations on, above, or near the landmass called Iraq? In other words, what is the real OP here? It's quite obvious, once you cut through the nonsense: The agents, through CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are quietly installing "kittaadp" software patches into US taxpayers' brains so that they will be mentally prepared for the future execution of kittaadps by the agents against other taxpayers and their agents dwelling on other locations on the planet - once said executions are executed. "Feed the taxpayers their castor oil now and let them get used to it: Deaths, injuries, fear. I.E. Patch their brain software now. We'll take the negative feedback and spin it in the best way possible*. But, on the whole, we'll have patched many, many taxpayers' brain software and those software patches will start running once the execution of the next kittaadp begins." Ed. Note: - Meaning, making sure that the spin is also simultaneously upbeat. The CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS "news" readers need to talk about the kittaadp in upbeat tones, so as to not put the taxpayer viewer in an agitated state - since commercials are periodically queued up and aired during the broadcasts. "The kittaadp will continue after these messages." Being in an agitated state isn't condusive to buying. 4.4.2003
A Massachusetts Agent Sees The Light At The End Of The Tunnel. At least one Massachusetts agent, who specializes in scribbling words on paper and pointing at his work of word art and uttering the word "laws" from his voice box, has only half-jokingly suggested naming the new underground highway "Taxpayers Tunnel". "If the intent is to recognize the human or humans who are responsible for the tunnel, then the taxpayers deserve more credit than a US agent," said the Massachusetts agent. "I get a bit leery when agnets rush to name things after other agents." Ed. Note: - Hey Mr. agent, have you been secretly reading this website? :-) 4.2.2003
Taxpayers Roll™ To A Halt. It is only a 'temporary glitch' say the agents. Also... Online map services could be updated easily, but when it comes to the Big Dig they are as obsolete as their paper cousins, with no mention of The new Northbound Taxpayers' Tunnel or The bustling Taxpayers' Bridge. Three days after Massachusett agents and the taxpayers who built the tunnel and bridge celebrated the opening of the The new Northbound Taxpayers' Tunnel and The new Taxpayers' Bridge, part of what they have called "the greatest highway project in US agent history," traffic again was at a standstill inside the new tunnel after rush hour last night. Don't fret, says a Massachusetts agent, it's still just part of the learning curve for taxpayers negotiating new exits and routes. "There's a three- to four-day learning curve in utilizing any new highway system," said a spokesperson for the Massachusetts agents. "Give us until about Friday or early next week, and we'll have a much better flow." At 7:30 p.m., taxpayers described traffic as moving steadily across The Taxpayers' Bridge, but it was a parking lot inside the newly opened tunnel. The backup was caused by a 7:30 p.m. concert by country singer Tim McGraw at the FleetCenter and a fender bender at around 8 p.m., the spokesperson for the Massachusetts agents said. It wasn't until about 9 p.m., when tow trucks had cleared the accident, that taxpayers could move at a reasonable speed through the tunnel, he said. While the evening commute is still prompting road rage and honking, the morning commute has run relatively smoothly, according to the agents. Still, an agent cautioned taxpayers that for the next couple of days, traffic in the tunnel could cause some frustration. "It's a work in progress right now," the agent said. "It's going to improve." Update: Along with all the tieups was an unusual sight. At the end of The new Northbound Taxpayers' Tunnel and just before the bridge, agents placed a variable message sign that actually encourages taxpayers to speed up. The sign, which reads "Please Maintain Speed," is meant to give taxpayers a push, after agents noticed taxpayers slowing down at the entrance to The Taxpayers' Bridge. 4.1.2003
Taxpayers And Agents Roll™ Their Sound Bites. Someone please be sure to follow-up with an Aaron Brown staffer about the "backdrop situation". The Taxpayers' Bridge, illuminated in blue light at night, has become the "new symbol of Boston agents and their taxpayers," according to a Massachusetts agent. A Boston agent has called the bridge, which evokes images of the nearby Bunker Hill Monument and the sails of the USS Constitution, a "great new landmark for Boston agents and their taxpayers". "I think taxpayers have to understand that, (to quote a Mass. agent), this is a true historical event," he said. "This is the first major commute on the largest agent highway ever built underneath a US agent controlled landmass. So we agents are going to be ready for it." "Taxpayers need to take their time," he said. "Forty-five miles per hour is the agent decreed speed limit ... taxpayers need to understand this is a US agent controlled highway. You can't cross four lanes of traffic 300 feet before your exit." "It's going very well," said a spokesperson for the Massachusetts agents. "Taxpayers are reading the signs." "It was nice, easy, simple, beautiful and well-lit," said taxpayer John, 38, who dwells on the landmass called Milton, who took the tunnel yesterday and was getting himself a coffee at a Rowes Wharf cafe. "It's nice to see some of our taxed Federal Reserve Notes finally coming to some visual pleasure." Taxpayer Gabriel, 25, who dwells on the landmass called Boston, a waiter at Grill 23, said it was a "weird" experience because his exit at Atlantic Avenue no longer existed, but "I think it's a little easier now." Taxpayer Tim, 26, a tourist trolley driver who dwells on the landmass called Fall River, said he was disappointed. He said the tunnel may have been clear, but traffic had backed up near the entrance of the tunnel and he had to sit for an hour in traffic. "I was expecting bigger and better things. It was a letdown," he said. "The agents, our masters, always had the tag line, 'It's worth the wait.' I don't really know if it was worth the wait now." Taxpayer Paul, 71, who dwells on the landmass called Boston - Roxbury Neighborhood, sat in the Rowes Wharf cafe, looking out at the old elevated highway. Taxpayer Paul said he could remember when the structure was new. "What The Taxpayers' Bridge is going to do, it's going to make the whole area here really and truly beautiful for all the agents and the taxpayers. It's going to enhance the psychie of the agents and the taxpayers," he said. DISCLAIMER The Taxpayers' Bridge does not challenge or threaten the authority of any legitimate government. The information on this website is provided in accordance with the right to free speech. It does not constitute accounting, tax, or legal advice. Anyone seeking such advice should consult a competent professional. READERS AND USERS OF THIS WEBSITE ARE PARTICULARLY URGED TO OBEY ALL LAWS IN THE UNIVERSE! |
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