i just want to show you a few more views of the watts towers. this is a place that people might have heard of, but they have no idea what they might be. when i told F. (Ferdinand) about Watts Towers, he thought they were going to be an actual building, some kind of unique architecture. it’s wonderful to take somebody there who has never seen them, because they are so truly unique. it’s incredible that this guy, simon rodia, worked and worked on the towers for years and years, and when he finished them, he gave the property to a neighbor and moved far away shortly thereafter and never saw them again.
simon rodia’s quote about the towers is “I had in my mind to do something big and I did.” i really love that. here are some more photos.
this first shows the detail of the steps which went up to front door. (The actual house that Rodia built was burnt to the ground, leaving just the folk art he created). can you see the chicken in the piece of pottery on the top step? and that green piece of glass on the lower step has the face of a man in it.
more soon.
ok then,
still sleep grace on friday morning.