Two Pictures

A haystack from Lala Meredith-Vula's Haystack (1989-2016) series has broken from the chorus to pursue a solo career. In other news, Steven Shearer's Wombles (2006) have reunited.

John Vanderpant (1884-1939)

Netherlands-born Vancouver artist John Vanderpant was photographing steel-enforced concrete grain towers as early as the mid-1920s, around the same time Le Curbosier (1887-1965) published Towards a New Architecture (1923, en français), which featured photos of grain towers, some of them hand-tinted with gouache.

The picture above is Vanderpant's Colonnades on Parade (c.1926); the one below, of an opened celery stalk, is his White Desire (1934).

Bomb Shelter Chic

I came upon this picture a couple weeks ago while not researching bomb shelters. Swore for a second it was a Rodney Graham. Part of a new black & white series, along with his recent After Braque: Playing Concertina in My Studio (With Hanging Construction) (2016)?