I am looking for nests and other natural objects from Louisiana to include in an installation for LPP. I hope to be collecting photographs of these objects on my research trips.

I am thinking a lot about this portrait at the New Orleans Museum of Art. François Fleischbein Portrait of a Free Woman of Color.  It is a captivating painting with wonderful detail. This image has become integral to the ideas in my work for this project since a young woman told me the story of her father wanting to go into St. Martin de Tours in Martinville, LA as a child.  He was not allowed in because of his skin color.  She went to the cathedral with her father when he was older and they walked freely into the sanctuary.  It was a very important moment for her father.  A symbol of liberty.

 New Orleans. Great museums: The Ogden, NOMA, National WWII Museum,  Louisiana State Museum and others. Sylvain Restaurant,  architecture,  beignets, antiques, fabulous people and stories.  

  

Lafayette.  Ponds with ducks, Winkeydoo's Barber shop, 
Prejean's Restaurant, crawfish and alligator cheesecake,  daiquiris to go, the Acadiana Center for the Arts.