Bicicleta

I've ridden a bike more in the past 5 days than I did in NYC collectively over the 7 years that I lived there. It's so nice to live in a city where you don't feel like your life is threatened if you want to ride more than a mile or two. Maybe an exaggeration but I've had so many friends get severely injured on bikes in NYC. Viva la bicicleta!

Harlem Postcards

Tribble & Mancenido, I Love You, Harlem, 2011

Harlem Postcards Summer 2011
Jul 14, 2011 - Oct 23, 2011

From the website: "Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue serve as popular postcard images that represent significant places and moments in this community. Today, Harlem continues to evolve as a center of history and culture. Everyday, changes are witnessed by its residents and experienced by tourists and visitors from all over the world. Harlem Postcards, an ongoing project, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect each artist’s oeuvre with an idiosyncratic snapshot taken in, or representing, this historic locale. Each photograph has been reproduced as a limited-edition postcard available free to visitors.

This season, we are pleased to feature postcard images created by Senetchut Floyd, Phillip Pisciotta, Tribble & Mancenido and Genesis Valencia."

There is..

"There is a cage
we all long to escape from.
Your cage may not be mine.
My cage may not be yours."

(Letter excerpt from a penpal serving life without parole in a secured housing unit)

100 Portraits @ ACP

Jake, Brooklyn, NY. 2006 from the projection exhibition
100 Portraits debut in Washington DC.
-
100 Portraits, a traveling exhibition curated by Andy Adams & Larissa Leclair that I am happy to be a part of, is now in Sydney!

This physical exhibition (previous have been projection exhibitions) will be on display Friday 29 July - Saturday 27 August. If you are in Sydney go check it out!

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street
Sydney, Australia

Past/Current/Future chapters of the show:
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Sydney Masonic Centre, Sydney Australia
Snap! Orlando festival, Orlando, FL
New York Photo Festival, Dumbo, NY

Self

Vivian Maier's self portraits are pretty fascinating.
You can see a bunch of them here.


Self Portrait, 1959


Self Portrait, February 1955

Sailing weather

The weather has been delightful these past few days.


TOY BOAT by Beth Hoeckel

Ampersand

From the show MARKS, MOLES & SCARS at Ampersand

Digging this book store and gallery in my new neighborhood. Will definitely be back again soon!

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New York looks pretty sweet.

Uproot

Arrived in the North West Friday afternoon... greeted by sun.
Unpacked the moving truck into storage. Ate well. Slept 11+ hours.
Rode a moped for the first time. It hasn't really set in that I left NYC.
Feel like I'm on vacation. Guess I'll milk that feeling for a few more days before I have to dive into the realities of relocating/uprooting after 7 years in NYC.

This painting is speaking to me today.


Pablo Picasso, Garcon a la Pipe

on a tuesday..

These past few days have been a bit surreal. Today I received a letter from my 34 year old penpal stating his last appeal (sent to the Supreme Court) had been denied and that his execution could very well unfold within the next 6-8 months. His letter has been echoing in my mind since I read it on the subway ride home a few hours ago. He's been on death row in Mississippi for the past 14 years but up until now there has been no real threat in his sentence ever coming to light. Out of any of the men I write, this man is the most spiritual by far and has shared so much about his experiences and time spent on death row.. his experiences with god, with being baptized, with seeking out new friends and new knowledge.. it's sad to hear this news. I need to write him back tonight. I was away in Syracuse when both of his letters arrived.

In other sad news, Ray Deter, owner of d.b.a in Manhattan (whom I had become acquainted with through my time in New Orleans and my love for the nola d.b.a. down there) passed away Sunday after being in a severe bike accident. A really nice article was written about him in the NY Times that can be read here.

And because bad news travels in threes- Cy Twombly, an artist that influenced many and was loved by many passed away today at 83. An article on the NY Times describes him and his work here.


Cy Twombly, Panorama. 1955

Now onward to tomorrow, which is bound to bring brighter news?
ps- I move away from NYC in less than a week.