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Wrinkled, Sleeping Lincoln
And The Dreaming Tree
© Oliverio ©
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Whoever sculpted that Sleeping Lincoln did an excellent job.
ReplyDeleteDo you know the artist's name?
Bagorini Hefti from Sicily (b. 1944) and five of his pieces
Deletewere featured in WHITE LOTUS, Season 2
Where exactly did YOU photograph it?
DeleteInteresting question... I fell asleep
Deleteunder a "Dreaming Tree" in Belmont Shore
[more commonly referred to as a "Scheming Tree"]
and had a dream about Lincoln sleeping
the night before his assassination.
Carol photographed me, just before I awoke
and I had to do a lot of editing to the image
Presently a Homicide Detective in Santa Monica, I am a former student
ReplyDeleteof Mr. Oliverio whose wonderfully warped sense of humor
had a lot to do with his Italian heritage.
He would have us rolling on the floor
with with his fake-but-funny Italian names,
The most famous examples being Rectango,
Squarini and Rhombo: the three sons of Rico Parallelo.
This page was shown to me by a young patrolwoman
who also had Oliverio at Jefferson HS...
No sooner does this homicide detective see the name
"Bagorini Hefti, we both delighted
in knowing Oliverio's warped and wonderful
sense of humor is alive and well.
Capisci?
Guilty as charged
DeleteI needed a full day before making this comment:
DeleteIt would be in the bailiwick of a Homicide Detective
to investigate a "conspiracy" but I truly believe
this Christmas season, certain people conspired
to make me utterly happy.
One of them I will refer to as "PG."
In my adult orphan years
(beginning in 1971),
PG was "the big brother" I never had.
That designation lasted for more than thirty years.
However, suffice it to say I did something
incredibly stupid and he refused to talk to me
with justification but it should not have been
a life sentence.
Lo and behold, he telephoned me December 23
and three wonderful phone conversations
ensued, lasting more than two hours.
The second conspirator was "TD."
In high school, he was my best friend
but after 1973, contact was limited
but always meaningful.
I did not see him again until
a class reunion in 2004...
for seventeen subsequent years
there was that many futile attempts
to contact him until ten days ago...
akin to what happened with "PG,"
there were three hours of wonderful conversation.
The third conspirator was "CB" a former student
who became a policewoman promoted to
Homicide Detective...
I had thought about her every time I looked at
the 1990 Jefferson HS Yearbook which I edited.
I have looked at that yearbook
at least three times annually
since its publication admiring many students
as lost dreams, CB being one of them.
Lo and behold, yesterday she made an extraordinary
and perceptive comment on this page.
I have one and only one thing
to say to the three conspirators:
THANK YOU