“At Cap-Egmont in Prince Edward Island, where he was a lighthouse-keeper, Edouard Arsenault started collecting bottles in 1979.…In the spring of 1980, at the age of 66, he began his construction, a mere hobby yet. As his six-gabled structure was taking form, visitors started coming in. Impressed by his work, they encouraged him to continue and to advertise it as a tourist attraction. And so, in 1981, the first Bottle House was open to the public. From 1980 to the spring of 1984, he cleverly cemented over 25,000 bottles of various shapes, sizes and colours, into three fantasy-like buildings.”

https://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/extreme-recycling-bottle-houses-prince-edward-island.php

More bottle houses: https://www.agilitynut.com/h/bh.html

I’ve had this little piece by Lesley hanging on my office wall for some years. It’s 13″ by 16″.  I love the asymmetry within the symmetry of her quilt work. See: https://www.lesleycreed.com/

“Los Angeles county officials are demanding that a creative homeowner tear down a 20,000-square-foot domicile he calls “Phonehenge West”–or face up to seven years in jail.

Former telephone technician Alan Kimble Fahey began building the structure three decades ago in Acton, the Los Angeles Times reports. Fahey, who christened the project “Phonehenge” because it sits atop pilings modified from phone utility poles, says he intends to turn the compound into a museum.

The labyrinthine network of buildings where Fahey, his wife, and teenage son live even includes a 70-foot tower covered in Italian stained-glass windows, and a barn. Fahey uses a “motorized cart” to get between buildings, an earlier report said.…”

Post on The Lookout News blog by Liz Goodwin:

https://news.yahoo.com/bloggers/liz-goodwin;_ylt=AtIvEsiBbHxH3mQRbfAltBKYx8Z_;_ylu=X3oDMTE4NjE1b2VlBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9oZWFkZXIEc2xrA2xpemdvb2R3aW4-

Sent us by Paul Adam Brown

I spent yesterday afternoon with Ivory Serra, son of my good friend Tony Serra ( I’ve known Ivory and his  twin brother Shelter since a few days after they were born). Ivory’s a working photographer, worked with Annie Liebovitz for a while, and knows the NYC art scene. (It’s quite wonderful that Ivory and Shelter, coming from this little town of 3000 people, have survived and thrived in NYC, and as artists.)

We went to some bookstores and a few galleries. I can’t find my notes on which gallery this was , or the sculptor, but he’s quite famous, and these are ultra expensive (prices not listed, but Ivory thinks maybe $150,000). It was a great afternoon, we started out at Grumpy’s coffee house on West 20th, and then went to all these places I would not have known about otherwise.