frank by firelight

wet

cold

hot

chthonicaxis

uranicaxis dry

WATER

FIRE

AIR

EARTH

tending tothe hearth

FRANK BY FIRELIGHT

AN ARCHITECTURE OF FIRE:

AN ONTOLOGY OF INVENTION:

1. FIRE(ELEMENTARY)

2. WHEEL(FORGERY)

3. LOG WITH A HANDLE(ALCHEMY)

-wood becomes commodity-potential energy created by stapling

CHTHONIC UR-BUILDING

Julian Carlton’s anonymously created Facebook profi le:

Th e fi re and murders at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin

Classifi cation: Mass murdererCharacteristics: His motive for the attack was never explainedNumber of victims: 7Date of murders: September 15, 1914Date of arrest: Same dayDate of birth: 1884Victims profi le: Martha “Mamah” Borthwick (mistress of Frank Lloyd Wright) and her children, Martha, 9, and John, 12 / Ernest Weston, 13 (son of carpenter William Weston) / Emil Brodelle, 26 (Milwaukee draughtsman) / David Lindblom, 38 (handyman) / Th omas Brunker, 68 (Taliesin foreman)Method of murder: Fire (gasoline) - Hitting with an axeLocation: Iowa County, Wisconsin, USAStatus: Died in jail from starvation 7 weeks later, despite medical attentionfrom http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htm

Taliesin I before devastating 1914 events:

Taliesin II rebuilt aft er 1914 fi re:

Taliesin III rebuilt again aft er electrical fi re in 1925:

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT1867-1959

Frank Lloyd Wright and family, carnival at Taliesin III