EMBODYING THE SAN FRANCISCAN SPIRIT OF CULTURAL EXCELLENCE
~San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom THE HOUSE OF EMAEL is pleased to announce its first book, THE LAST AMERICAN ICON. Beautifully merging art theory with a daily meditation practice, THE LAST AMERICAN ICON was conceived and developed to address the specific needs of people in the face of vague and changing times. Written by emael as a haiku a day the year that the World Trade Center was destroyed and designed by Diego Pacheco based on the lunar calendar of that year, the results are truly fantastic and signal a future of groundbreaking projects from this pair that is fun, provocative, and bold. If you have been searching for a completely new ritual, relish in this 3-D lunar calendar that will help you meditate daily on living peacefully on the planet. Here's to welcoming a perfect future.
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By mister emael
Nov 28, 2007
"The Drama Review: NYU journal of performance studies" This book is both an act of endurance and a performance script, written as the performance was taking place. The performance elements become the actual syllables of the haiku.His particular brand of Chicano Zen Buddhism is completely urban. And just like emael's life, his haikus are urban literature. When you read emael's haiku you become aware that he is hyper aware of making daily decisions, of ritualizing things even though (or perhaps because) he may not know necessarily how they are going to turn out, and developing a system for living as performance.~Guillermo Gómez-PeñaTDR, MIT Press
