untitled (“feather-light”) 2009
It’s an even more awesome and happy sight when they’re seen moving.
Category: Image
winter pots
untitled (two pots) 2009
It was only noon today, but I wanted to capture an image for the blog of the ho-hum big storm of March, 2009. At the same time, not wishing to suit up for the cold and the wet before breakfast, I decided to stick my camera out of the breakfast room window. It was still snowing.
Believe it or not, this is actually a color image: I can’t wait until spring.
ragged tarps on Grand Street lot, Williamsburg
untitled (blue threads) 2009
Yesterday I spotted this section of a sad, somewhat unsound wall which had been assembled around a large vacant lot on Grand Street in Williamsburg. These bright blue tarps, blowing in the wind and buoyed by the February sun, would hardly present any barrier to the curiosity of even the most casual passerby, but as a brilliantly-lit, flapping bauble they managed to relieve the drabness of the dull flat plywood boards they interrupted with their play.
Will their gambolling last until the day the sober speculators return with their cranes?
Wooster door
The picture may be a bit colorless and slightly shaky, since there was almost no light off the corner of Wooster Street near Grand at 6:30 tonight, and no tripod in sight, but I still wanted to try to capture the mystery of this doorway. It’s on the side of a building which has attracted (almost literally) tons of street art over the years.
I had heard some time ago that it was slated for demolition, but who knows what’s going to happen to it now?
The image I got makes me think of one of those spooky shadow boxes crafted variously out of feathers, seeds, shells, hair and cut paper that were so popular with the Victorians. When I lived there I used to see them all over New England in shop windows and at barn and estate sales, preserved inside framed glass boxes or cabinets, but now I can’t find a single pictorial relic of their weird vogue on line.
where the shore meets the sea (in Dumbo)
untitled (roofhouses) 2008
thirteen windows in the darkness
untitled (13 windows) 2008
Savannah flora
I found it very difficult last week to capture any particularly interesting shots of the many beautiful buildings in historic Savannah; I had more luck with the plants I encountered in our walks.
The first image above is of Spanish Moss hanging from the branches of one of the centuries-old Live Oaks on the grounds of the extraordinary Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation south of the city along the Altamaha RIver. The second is of the base of a thistle plant which I saw there at the side of a path. The third is of an ancient rock wall below Factors Walk across from Factors Row back in the city.
The colors of these greens are true to life, even though I found it especially difficult to believe my eyes when I was standing by that wall at the bottom.
SCAD Trustees Theater marquee
untitled (neon) 2008
This is a large detail of the underside of the the Trustees Theater, a beautiful 1946 movie palace restored by the Susannah College of Art and Design.
The theater is host to the Savannah Film Festival, which opens this Saturday.
Tybee Island beach fence
untitled (bird tracks) 2008
This fence is at the crest of the beach at Tybee Island outside Savannah. We drove out to past the saltwater marshes to the ocean late Tuesday afternoon.
Bowery turf
untitled (yellow riser) 2008
This grassy clump is growing at the top of the stairs of a subway entrance on Bowery.
Who says Manhattan’s lost its edge? Ask any European or Japanese visitor what s/he thinks about the appearance of our infrastructure – after twenty years of killer prosperity for the city. I’m afraid of what may lie ahead, even if it could mean the return of affordable apartments for artists and those who love them.
In any case, it looks like we haven’t lost our heart. I like the grafitto, “I love you”, in the background.