Alas, this refrigerator is no more. The collage has been disbanded. The connections that were once explicit are now implicit, but ever-present and strong.
1. Three shadowy figures, left to right, my brother; J. Wayne Bishop (a
good friend from Ottawa, Canada) and myself .
2. My brother and I.
3. My mother.
4. Mozart grave, Vienna, from my brother.
5. My mother again.
6. My father.
7. Rear view of the family home.
8. Front view of the family home.
9. A view of the garden at home.
10. A pine tree (about 25m tall), which had to be cut.
11. Looking up the trunk of another tall pine tree.
12. Mustela Erminea.
13. Helene Grimaud
and below the following poem
you ask me
why I write
on scraps of paper
or inside a used envelope
words of beauty
are never final
for as I grow
so do they
words beautify space and
not space words
but what of words
that are received by a scorched heart
a muted soul
may be those words
will be engraved on my tombstone
to remind those who come
that there once was love
beyond words
(H. Dehejia)
14. Cecilia Bartoli
and below
Julia Wolfe -- [Composer of] "Music dense in texture, dark in colour and
just plain loud with a touch of self-deprecation"
15. A drawing of an elephant.
16. A picture of my family at Lincoln Center (see photographs in the "About
the author" section).
17. Another elephant.
18. Arles, France from my friend Roberta Gatti.
19. The Hindu Pose, Matisse, 1923.
20. Villars, Switzerland from my friends Suzy and Sadek Wahba.
21. Stutgart, Germany, the Alta Oper, from my friend Federica Censolo.
22. Goreme Village, Turkey.
23. Muzeum W.A. Mozarta, Betramka, Prague.
24. Castello di Miramare, Trieste.
25. Donal McCann (actor) -- "My method? Read, read, read, read, read. Trust
the play...I don't belong anywhere where celebrity equals merit or money
means talent or wealth proves achievement. The accomplishment is more important
than the reception. Endeavor is what matters. Using your talent is what matters.
And since what finally matters is being with God, shouldn't you try to live
your life in the light of the ultimate?"
26. The Duomo in Florence, postcard from my friend Roberto Censolo.
27. Azulejos de Portugal.
28. New Orleans Jazz.
29. Potsdam, Sanssouci, from my friend Christine Marlin.
30. Bali.
31. Coltrane on Soprano, 1963.
32. A pine tree (estimated height 25m).
33. Cappella dei Magi, Benozzo Gozzoli, Palazzo Medici-Ricardi, Florence,
from my friend Giunia Gatta.
34. The Tower of London, from my friend Valentina Fortunati.
35. Menton, Cote d'Azur, from my friend Donatella Campus.
36. Amsterdam, from my brother and parents.
37. Tuscany.
38. Roma, Museo Capitolino, Venus Capitoline.
39. La Pyramide du Louvre, Paris, from my friend Minh Trinh.
below left, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
below right, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-95, Paul Cezanne, 424 E. 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
40. Venezia, S. Marco, Acqua alta
below right, Pompei Excavations, Villa of Mysteries, from my friend Patrizia
Canziani.
41. Gustav Klimt, Bildnis Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Bavarian State
Museum.
42. Portrait of a Lady, 1889, Giovanni Boldini.
43. Lochow, Polond, from Edyta.
44. Michelangelo, Cappella Sistina, Vault, The Creation of Man (detail).
45. "I would rather be blind seeking the sun
than remaining satisfied in flickerings of light." (H. Dehejia)
46.
a flower that grows by the wayside
a drop of water on a leaf that reflects the morning sun
a smile on a child that has nothing to wear
the generosity of a man who is too poor to buy shoes
the first blossom of the spring and the colours of the fall
these are the things that cause me a sense of amazement. (H. Dehejia)
"Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching with a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all of those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones won't mean anything.
"If there is one thing I want my children to learn from me, it is to take pleasure in life's daily small successes. It is the most important thing I've learned."
47. Dolly the Sheep, the first animal cloned from a non-embryonic cell.
48. Wallace and Gromit.
49. Berlin, Rotes Rathaus und Neptunbrunnen.
50. Zurich, Switzerland from my friends Sandra Bieri and Sven Feldman.
51. Ponte Vecchio, Florence, from Mr.and Mrs. Gatta.
52. "Mr. Cringely...offers Oxford a better nerd definition: 'a person who
uses a computer to use a computer'."
53. Roma.
54. Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait of Woman in Turkish Costume, from my friend
Janet Irwin.
55. "Broken my damned monocle," from my friend Daniele Nepi.
56. Stewart Alsop and his brother Joseph, Washington, 1963.
57. Ancestor of man? "Conservationists fear that a planned water impoundment
on the Burnett River in Australia threatens the Australian lungfish, which
can breath air with its single lung. The species is in a group that has existed
for more than 400 million years."
58. 30/9/1997 "Birthday Tribute to a Master of Indian Dance," Guru Kelucharan
Mohapatra, a master teacher of the Odissi dance form.
59. "A child left a footprint, top, in solf clay 12,500 years ago at the
Monte Verde site in Chile. Tent stakes driven into the ground by humans at
the site are still bound by knotted strands of twisted cordage."
60. "Strange Vibrations -- Leon Theremin, the Russian scientist who invented
the musical instrument that bears his name and that does not have to be touched
to play, is the subject of a documentary, 'Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.'
Written, produced and directed by Steve M. Martin..."
61. "Scholars believe that 13 birch bark scrolls at the British Library in
London date from the first or second century A.D. and are the oldest known
Buddhist writings. A fragment shows the Kharosthi script... The fragments
range from sermons to poems. The scholar provided an example of a verse from
a poem called 'The Rhinoceros Horn': 'People keep you company and serve you
for a motive; real friends are hard to find these days. People are insincere,
clever in pursuing their own ends; wander alone like the rhinoceros."