1995 Eivissa (Ibiza): The Garden at ECO

Below you see a panoramic view of the garden space that belongs to another of Daniel's ventures: AgriCulTourismo, or ACT. In it's early stages, ACT aims to provide an ecologically responsible tourist alternative to high-rise sterile hotels.

It's a very pretty garden, what with its lily pond and goldfish (at right of this image), the garden seating area in the middle, the massage cabin, and the indoor seating area in the style of a bazaar (at left). I know this image is hard to see; it's a quarter-scale version of the original. If you click on the image you'll see the original.

[This is the way I'll offer you all the panoramic images. Because they're stitched together from several to many individual frames taken by my digital camera, panoramic images tend to be large files. The scaled images are called "thumbnails"; you'll see many images in these web pages that are marked as being hyperlinks. I've hidden a lot of image detail because I don't know how fast a network connection you have.]

Tian Harlan

Today Tian Harlan (at left) came to visit. An old friend of Daniel's, Tian is perhaps best known in the art world for the ColorTime clock that graced the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Flowing from the artistic creation of that graceful 2.5 meter-high obelisk, which shows the twelve-hour day as twelve distinct colors ("meet me at the skating rink at half-past red"), has been the wildly successful ColorTime wrist watch, several "Color Your Day" works, and in the near future, an intricate piece of performance art that centers upon a book-wristwatch combination.

Harlan's visit resulted in several days of discussion of the sublime and the insane, of the culturally important (time in seconds is ruining the human animal) to the artistically imperative (plans for a large ColorTime-oriented performance art event at a major European exposition). Harlan promises to send me source material to be turned into web pages.

Today is the first day of school, here on Eivissa. My nine-year-old cousin Mayra prepared her rucksack last night, and we all got up extra early in order to have breakfast and to be ready to go out the door on time. (The image at right shows Mayra using a stick to poke at all the dead technology that Daniel has lying in an outdoor water fountain built in a satellite dish, another victim of the island's rough handling of high-tech hardware. This is one thumbnail you want to expand.) We made it, and afterwards many of the parents met at the local watering hole, Fernandito's, to celebrate being freed from the tyranny of the little ones.

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