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BY LACEY LIPPS

[[image]] SUZANNA DYCUS

Porter College Sherry Hours are acquiring growing cachet among UCSC's fine arts cognoscenti. Where else can you hear New Music pioneer and Porter provost David Cope break into a few spontaneous bars of "As Time Goes By"? Or witness performance art involving liverwurst and a toy bunny dedicated to Halloween? The recent reception to Zarina Hashami's paper sculpture and print show provided an intriguing excuse for full house attendance at the Porter House. Assistant provost Keith Muscutt stopped gathering wild mushrooms long enough to pay full lip service to the lavish cheese display.
The theme was art (with a bit of wine consumption on the side) and holding court in various corners of the living and dining rooms were Sesnon Gallery curator Ronaldo Castillon (whose impressive bronze show is now freshly installed), Mary and Reyner Banham, photographer Norman Locks, Sunday painter Pavel Machotka, Mary LePorte (whose show of monoprints recently unveiled itself at Stevenson College) and even Stevenson provost Dennis McElrath, in a rare, ever-suave, guest appearance.
Proving that what you see is not always what you get, the paper sculptures of Hashmi (whose adoring art students showed up en force) are monolithic in feel, but in fact featherlight constructions of pressed, stamped and molded hand-made paper. Utilizing a witty iconography of primal metallurgy, Hashmi's sculptures resembled wheels,

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shards and chunks of volcanic mountain folded into post-modernist cones and fans. In her bold etchings, nature (from artichokes to pinnacles) threatens to explode right off the paper.
The only thing missing from the eclectic evening was the theme from Casablanca.