untitled (yellow pole) 2006
Category: Image
the old Vinegar Hill
untitled (asphalt siding) 2006
I’m pretty fond of the siding this nineteenth-century house in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill aquired some time in the next.
polished Gehry
The old Chelsea confronts the new: The faded remainder of a painted twentieth-century advertising sign for a popular auto body polish faces the sparkling highlights of a nearly-completed Frank Gehry building on the West Side Highway. The top of the painted brick facade of the Anton Kern Gallery fills the bottom of the picture frame.
study in composition and color, or parlor window serendipity
untitled (green vertical) 2006
keeping our twenty-first century subway humming
These electrical cable enclosures, which appeared almost exactly at eye level, easily amused me while I was waiting on the N/R platform at 42nd Street yesterday. It’s amazing that the system somehow manages to work – most of the time – in spite of its patches and scars.
wispiness
untitled (wispy) 2006
I’m lying low, trying very hard not to think about much of what’s going on under these skies these days, but maybe I’ll be able to do something in this space tomorrow.
before the storm tonight, in Chelsea
untitled (silver signboard) 2006
crossing from Williamsburg to Manhattan
untitled (bridge lamp) 2006
tungsten moon over the East River
rubbish barricade
untitled (Poland Spring) 2006
nature, Johnson, Kelly, Bertoia
Last week while visiting the garden Philip Johnson designed in 1953 for the Museum of Modern Art I was charmed by the anthopomorphic postures of the Bertoia chairs, also just over fifty years old, which are found strewn (rather mysteriously drifting) about the elegant grounds.
untitled (Bertoia) 2006
Sometimes alone.
And, oh yeah, it is after all a sculpture garden, so I shouldn’t, and couldn’t, ignore the more formal installations.
Ellsworth Kelly Green Blue (1968) painted aluminum [view of installation]