Pat Jordan

My mom sent me a recipe for eggplant parmesan derived from the one at the William Sonoma website. I had been extolling the virtues of the vegetables at the farmer’s market and about how good the eggplant looked. Her reaction: “Well, you’ll love this.” It’s eggplant, cheese, tomatoes, a bit of garlic, and lots of olive oil. It’s quite good. It does take some time… and you’re using the oven and boiling down tomatoes while it’s hot out side. I think it’s worth it.

eggplant by Pat Jordan on Zooomr

In other news, this month’s ARTNews magazine reviewed a Louise Bourgeois exhibition in New York (I need to live there to have easy access to these things). This reminded me that about two weeks ago I went to a garage sale that was housed inside a basketball court. Over the top of the metal cages there was a giant blue tarp. The man running the show with the long beard and ragged old wallet full of bills called it “The Danger Zone.” This man also said he was a national-caliber Scrabble competitor. Inside the Danger Zone there were tables covered with old dusty junk with price tags, mirrors, and books. Wooden chairs hung from the cage’s walls and from poles in the center. It bore striking resemblance to Louise Bourgeois’s Passage Dangereux (see below) which simply translates to “Dangerous Passage.” A weird coincidence with the name (somewhat), but I guess there’s the possibility that it’s intentional.
Louis Bourgeois is a wonderful artist. She’s in her late nineties and still as sharp and as productive as ever. She was a surrealist associated with Léger and now she has become personally renowned for her sculpture and installation works.

Louise Bourgeois, Passage Dangereux, 1997. Taken from the book Themes in Contemporary Art by Gill Perry and Paul Wood