StreetArtNYC, June 2014
What's nice about being a human being is the ability to choose. One day you have ice cream for dessert, the next, fresh fruit, and perhaps nothing at all the day after that. Similarly, I vacillate between artistic mediums. For several years after graduate school, I painted in watercolor and gouache on paper because I lacked the funds and the studio for large easel painting. As my interest in painting waned, I often felt guilty for abandoning my chosen major in college and graduate school.
But wait - didn't I choose painting as a major simply to fulfill academic requirements? I actually remember not wanting to choose a major so I could take more sculpture and Italian classes, but the darned registrar or whoever decides your academic fate said NO! You must choose a major and a concentration! And that was that.
Rather than box myself into a single category, I find merit in
celebrating this multidimensional person whom I call "myself." More recently, side projects including collaboration, assemblage, writing and photography have come to the forefront. Let them! At times, it feels if I am watching someone else perform, take photos, write articles. Where do the ideas originate from? What is this eye that sees beauty in neighborhood street trash or haunted homes? There is no easy answer. This blog has been a wonderful outlet for these mini-projects, which are not projects but whims which I have (sometimes) been smart enough to pursue.

Swoon, Brooklyn Museum
Ai Wei Wei, Brooklyn Museum
Metal Post, Lower East Side
The Bowery at Sunset
Bar Interior, Alphabet City
Matt Siren Sticker
Matt Siren Sticker
Bar Interior, Alphabet City
Soho
Trash Day, Bed-Stuy
Found Roses (had to return them), Bed-Stuy
My Friend Matt
Matt @ Motorino's Pizza, East Village
Hudson River Parkway, Facing New Jersey
Rembrandt Couple: The husband belongs to the Taft Museum in Ohio, the wife, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Every few years, they get to spend a few weeks next to each other. This was their last day together.
Dispossession, Bed-Stuy. The house next to me, which has been illegally housing squatters for years, was finally condemned. The building had no running water, structural damage and a collapsing roof. Last summer I played with the children staying there. In the fall they left for who knows where. Let's pray that they are okay.
View from Myrtle-Broadway Platform
Team Rokit, Leaf 8k
Team Rokit, Leaf 8k
View from Myrtle-Broadway Platform
Team Rokit, Leaf 8k
Team Rokit, Leaf 8k
View from LIRR Platform, Bed-Stuy
View from Myrtle-Broadway Platform
View from LIRR Platform, Bed-Stuy
Poster in LIRR Train
Sticker, Tag, Long Island
Sticker, LIRR Train, Queens
View from LIRR Platform, Bed-Stuy
Condemned Building, Bed-Stuy
Condemned Washer, Bed-Stuy
Beautiful Doorway, Bedstuy/Bushwick
At W4 on the way to MA
Self-Serve Car Wash
Van, Bed-Stuy
Bushwick and Myrtle
What a Doorway
Building on Beaver and Locust
Feat. Leaf 8k, Team Rokit
Stairway
Doorway, Long Island City, Queens
Whitewash at Jeffery Leder Gallery
Featuring graffiti artists at 5Pointz, LIC
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Long Island City, Queens
Stickers near bike rack, Bed-Stuy
Rat! Bed-Stuy
Bed-Stuy, Summer
Crumpled Building, Bed-Stuy
J Train, 5pm
Bleecker and Bowery
Posters by Matt Siren, Russell King
Great Wall Buildings, Bed-Stuy
Stickers, South Williamsburg
Port-O-Potties, South Williamsburg
Domino Sugar Factory
Shady Queue, South Williamsburg
Kara Walker Sugar Spinx & Babies
Domino Sugar Factory
Kara Walker Sugar Spinx & Babies
Domino Sugar Factory
South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
"Rockit" by Team Rockit, Brooklyn Navy Yards
Domino Sugar Factory
"Believe The Magic" by Olek
Kent and S 5th, South Williamsburg
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, about 6am
WOMP, Bushwick
Truck Art, Upper East Side
Matt Siren and Russell King
Kent and South 5th
Boats!! Long Island City, Queens
Greenpoint
Bushwick
WOMP
Office Space
Rooftop, Central Park
Matt Siren, Russell King
Bleecker and Bowery
COST Adam Cost
LES
LES
Bushwick
Truck Art, Bushwick, Laundromat
Bushwick/Bed-Stuy
Bed-Stuy
TOUCH, Bed-Stuy
Under the JMZ, Bed-Stuy
Under the JMZ, Bed-Stuy
Bean Sprouts @ 5am
My Guru is Everywhere
Funny Contractor Graff
Summer view of Central Park
Possible Crack Den? Bushwick
Fan, Pratt Institute
Wall Markings, Bed-stuy
Al Ritmo, Bushwick
YOSHI
Bushwick
Cost, Space Invader, ENX
South Williamsburg, Bushwick
Balcony Garden
Sprouts!!
Flying Solo, Construction Site
Beautiful Doorway, Bedstuy/Bushwick
At W4 on the way to MA
Self-Serve Car Wash
Van, Bed-Stuy
Bushwick and Myrtle
What a Doorway
Building on Beaver and Locust
Feat. Leaf 8k, Team Rokit
Stairway
Doorway, Long Island City, Queens
Whitewash at Jeffery Leder Gallery
Featuring graffiti artists at 5Pointz, LIC
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Long Island City, Queens
Stickers near bike rack, Bed-Stuy
Rat! Bed-Stuy
Bed-Stuy, Summer
Crumpled Building, Bed-Stuy
J Train, 5pm
Bleecker and Bowery
Posters by Matt Siren, Russell King
Great Wall Buildings, Bed-Stuy
Stickers, South Williamsburg
Port-O-Potties, South Williamsburg
Domino Sugar Factory
Shady Queue, South Williamsburg
Kara Walker Sugar Spinx & Babies
Domino Sugar Factory
Kara Walker Sugar Spinx & Babies
Domino Sugar Factory
South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
"Rockit" by Team Rockit, Brooklyn Navy Yards
Domino Sugar Factory
"Believe The Magic" by Olek
Kent and S 5th, South Williamsburg
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, about 6am
WOMP, Bushwick
Truck Art, Upper East Side
Matt Siren and Russell King
Kent and South 5th
Boats!! Long Island City, Queens
Greenpoint
Bushwick
WOMP
Office Space
Rooftop, Central Park
Matt Siren, Russell King
Bleecker and Bowery
COST Adam Cost
LES
LES
Bushwick
Truck Art, Bushwick, Laundromat
Bushwick/Bed-Stuy
Bed-Stuy
TOUCH, Bed-Stuy
Under the JMZ, Bed-Stuy
Under the JMZ, Bed-Stuy
Bean Sprouts @ 5am
My Guru is Everywhere
Funny Contractor Graff
Summer view of Central Park
Possible Crack Den? Bushwick
Fan, Pratt Institute
Wall Markings, Bed-stuy
Al Ritmo, Bushwick
YOSHI
Bushwick
Cost, Space Invader, ENX
South Williamsburg, Bushwick
Balcony Garden
Sprouts!!
Flying Solo, Construction Site
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