Vacuum Cleaner Abuse - Can't Blame this on Reckless Tub Washing

Can't Blame this on Reckless Tub Washing

I know when most people think of Dangerous Chemicals and Rug Cleaning they think of Reckless and Wanton Tub Washing. But Tom M can rest assured that no one is blaming him this time.

It seems a woman put Heroin and Crack in her Vacuum Cleaner and got caught. 

It just reminds me that some terrible things like washing rugs in bleach are not yet against the law. Don't you wish that the police were cracking down on Tub Washing and Bleaching rather than just narcotics.

"BLOOMFIELD — Authorities say a northern New Jersey woman hid heroin and crack cocaine in a vacuum cleaner in her living room and crack in a bedroom laundry hamper.

The Record reports that 53-year-old Carolyn Mendez-Molder, of Bloomfield, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with multiple drug charges.

She was ordered held at Essex County Jail on $300,000 bail. It wasn’t immediately known if she had an attorney."

http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2015/02/19/police-heroin-crack-cocaine-found-vacuum-cleaner/23664349/

Parviz Tanavoli at Wellesley College

My old friend Parviz Tanavoli is one of the greatest experts on Persian Rugs and Weaving.  He is also Iran’s greatest living sculptor. It is good to see him receive the success he deserves. JBOC

Davis Museum to show Iranian artist's work

 

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, USA will present Parviz Tanavoli, the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the influential Iranian artist's work to be mounted by a US museum.

On view from February 10 to June 7, 2015, the exhibition will survey the breadth and richness of the artist's career from the 1960s to the present day, marking the 50th anniversary of Tanavoli's famed 'Heech' project, newswise.com reported.
Critically acclaimed and widely acknowledged as the "father of modern Iranian sculpture", Tanavoli's trajectory has spanned east and west as he has innovated ambitiously across media. Best known as a sculptor, his expansive oeuvre also includes painting, printmaking, ceramics, rugs, and jewelry. As well, he is a highly regarded collector, scholar and poet.
Based in Tehran and Vancouver, Tanavoli (b.1937) has been a leading influence among a generation defined by its commitment to artistic practices that are both modern and distinctly Iranian.
According to Fischman, "Tanavoli has refined a complex system of symbols and motifs into a distinctive visual language, fusing Persian traditions with pop sensibility. As well, his work entwines profound sensitivity to language, formal clarity, and conceptual engagement into a forcefully original artistic practice."
Tanavoli returns again and again to the Poet, the Prophet, and the Lovers, to walls and windows, locks, and birds—figures that stand on metaphorical borders, and exist aesthetically between traditions of realism and abstraction. Among his many long-standing projects, Heech—initiated in February 1965, and set to mark a fiftieth anniversary with the opening of the Davis exhibition—perhaps best exemplifies Tanavoli's work. The artist treats the calligraphic script for 'Heech', the Persian word for 'nothing' or 'nothingness' to multiple expressions in three dimensions and variable materials—from delicate jewelry to polished bronze and hi-gloss fiberglass sculpture. The concept of 'Heech', as Tanavoli explains, is abstract, philosophical, and celebratory; he says, "Heech is not nothing. It has a body, a shape, but also a meaning behind it."
Internationally recognized as one of Iran's foremost artists, Tanavoli's work has been presented around the world, and has recently been featured in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Asia Society and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.