Mike Rea is amazing. He takes the fantasy to the next level. Here is a fecal face interview with him.

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Margot and I have been working on making a nest for an art proposal. She has been feeling the nest planting them across the country. I think she told me about the bower bird 8 years ago. I just saw a picture of it for the first time this year & fell in love with it not realizing until recently that it is the same bird.

“The male bower bird of New Guinea and Australia creates elaborate nests during breeding season to attract a mate. These nests serve only as areas for courtship display and are used and improved for several years. The bower bird chooses an open site among the trees, and sweeps it clear of leaves. The bird then builds the structure (bower) from carefully chosen twigs that he sticks firmly in the ground. The enclosures’ shapes differ by species. For example, the gardener bower bird builds circular hut like bowers, often around the trunk of a small tree. The bowers floor is decorated with brightly colored flowers and fruit.

Another species builds an open topped structure made from two rows of twigs three feet long and six inches wide. The whole area is decorated with such objects as bleached bones, feathers, shells, fruits, and petals. Some birds even paint their bowers with the juice of berries. The male bower bird entices a female to his completed structure and dances before her, displaying himself and the objects he has collected. After mating, the female builds herself a separate nest for her eggs.” from ladywildlife

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Florentijn Hofman thinks big and in color. He inflates large animals, imitates delivery men to get their parking spaces and paints the brick road yellow. Oh and he made a giant sleeping muskrat out of hay in a place where they seem to cause a hulabaloo.

Here he highlights a forgotten building - slated for demolition. Renewing interest before it is erased, it is now one of the most photographed buildings in Rottterdam.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jessica

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I saw Ma Jun’s work in a book in the 768 in Beijing & fell in love. He takes porcelain casts of modern objects and sends them to a factory where they paint China in a traditional way. Genius.

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This would go great in my broken Chinese Wedding cabinet. That is another beast of a story all together.

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Dear Cai,

In the middle of the rainbow, the arch of your heart, there is a black space. Rather, many of them. But it arches and soars. it searches for the top of the sky, not knowing or needing to know if it will never get there.

love,

Jessica

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Dear Theo,

Today was a pretty hard. I am not going to go into it. It’s not unique. Infact, it’s so common that 60% of the songs in the world already say my feelings better for me. Anyways, I am not writing to complain. Really I just want to say thank you. You are my hero. I love the image of you above, pulling the magical beast of yours behind you. We each seem to have one we pull around with us. I guess our beasts are just how we make them. Yours is great. Thanks again.

Jessica

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