La Belle Pauline at the Office

Message 3, copy 5 of 10
Manhattan, NY

So close to the phone, is the 5th copy of Message 3 sending a message? Does La Belle Pauline need to leave the Office, being in the wonderful company of flowers?

Spring is in the air, at the office

Spring is in the air, at the office

She left my studio on West 39th street, January 30, to send this picture of her from an office on East 42nd Street, April 24…

From the same office came that other photo of La Belle Pauline. We are reassured, she is out of the fish tank!
Pauline-in-the-tank

!0 copies in paper have been made from La Belle Pauline. To know more about her, please visit  Messages in a Bottle and the FKL Show.

“Pen Gwen”

Jean Le Doussal
Saint-Étienne de Chigny, France

Along the Loire River, a new sentinel guards the village entrance since 2013. It is “Pen Gwen”, by Jean Le Doussal. It sits on the “levée”, facing the river, remote and mysterious. On its back, the village and its new housing slowly expanding…

le-doussal

 
Jean Le Doussal taught me sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts of Tours in the seventies. I did not see him since then. He was so quiet and discreet, no trace of him could be found on the internet. I presume he died. The only information found is on the little wall, right of the sculpture, a stone that reads:

Jean
Le Doussal
“Pen Gwen”
1987
Mauves s/ Loire

To know more about “Pen Gwen”, please visit Jean-François Cochard blog, A-GENIUS LOCI

La Belle Pauline Across the River

Message 3, copy 2 of 10
Jersey City, NJ

The second copy of Message 3 in a Bottle was given to Ronni Anderson, from Mayson Gallery, the day after the opening of the Frivolous King Lère show with the Big Apple Circus and Clown Care, February 29. In a little bit more of two month, it crossed the Hudson River!
La Belle Pauline looking at the new World Trade Center from Jersey City

La Belle Pauline looking at the new World Trade Center from Jersey City

Ronni’s comment:
“Sorry about delay – I’ve attached a photo of La Belle Pauline in Jersey City with a back drop of NYC and the Freedom Tower!
I will be sending her to Ashland, Oregon to a children’s class room where they will take good care of her and send in the pictures to you.  Hope all is well!!”
!0 copies in paper have been made from La Belle Pauline. To know more about her, please visit  Messages in a Bottle and the FKL Show. To know  more about Clown Care, please visit the Mayson Gallery.