good to know

screen-shot from weather.com. Lovely!

rose + glasses

got myself some new glasses + been painting these beautiful roses non-stop.

Leaving for Paris in a week!

artsy fartsy

I discovered the black and white settings on my camera just in time for an impromptu visit to an open mic night on the Lower East Side. I really loved trying to capture the earnestness and energy of the performers and the vibe of the place.

daylight

First year of graduate school officially finished, and I have time, glorious time! I'd let this blog slide and realized I really missed the creative outlet, so in honor of Summer, it's time to get this thing going again.



Walking down by the Highline/West River yesterday and the sunset was absolutely spectacular. I'd forgotten how amazing it is just to wander the city - as the Italians say, "l'arte di fare niente," the art of doing nothing.

Life is short, art is long, time is fleeting, experience fallible, decisions difficult.

-- first aphorism of Hippocrates (460-370 BCE)

"Art is what makes life more interesting than art"

-Robert Filliou