Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 May 1904

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and ‘Yves Klein’ blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spattered around.
(6 June 2009)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 26th of May 1904 120 years ago
Neurologist Gilles Georges Albert Édouard Brutus de la Tourette dies of depression and hypomania at the age of 47 in Hôpital de Cery, Prilly, Vaud, Switzerland.