some of the sights and sounds without the sounds from my mom's place. nate, annie, luke and i spent some of the morning covering my mom's walkway with chalk drawings. luke drew a lot of different kinds of boats, submarines, and the like. also, there is a swallow nest with 4 baby swallows outside her kitchen. it's pretty amazing how they make the nest out of mud and it just clings to the side of a wall. if you look you can see 2 of the babies in the nest.
some of the shadows cast on one of the in-progress Habitat For Artist studios. it reminded me on a richard deibenkorn painting.
this is in my neighbor's front yard. when i think cactus flowers, i don't usually think this part of the world, but one house on market street would beg to differ.
i love this shadow, especially with the grid lines coming off of it. it reminds me of the drafting drawings i learned in college with the front, side and top view and the projected lines connecting them.
i started helping simon with the Habitat For Artists project today. in a very abridged nutshell, HFA is simon's ongoing project to bring small artist studios built from reclaimed building materials to different locations and faciitating a dialogue between the artists, the space, and the people that are also at the space. it changes the interface of public and studio, and i think he's got a really great idea going here. so he's putting a few of them up at the hudson highlands land trust in garrison and i am going to be taking up residency in one for a couple weeks later this summer. right now, tho, i am helping him build the studios and getting the whole thing going. these images are, starting from the bottom up, some cool splatters on a drop cloth i peeled open, the inside of the door to the studio for the kids writing group River of Words, and a tag bearing the slogan of the mission, "what inspires you?" with the postcard for the project above it. my answer to this on a previous occasion was "you do!"
nate and i checked out the annual open studio event in peekskill today. some of the spaces were cool, in the typical former factory building and whatnot. in between meeting artists and seeing their work we grabbed lunch at a new farm-to-table hole in the wall with a fantastic beer selection called birdall house. the place is only a couple months old, and we each had kick-ass food (beet and grain burger for me, duck prosciutto focaccia pizza for the dude). the beer list rotates. as a keg runs out, they erase that beer from the board and put something new in, so each visit is a new beer experience. as we tried to venture out to see more art, it was raining so hard the rain wad sideways. we went back in, had another half pint each, and i noticed this cool clock from the restaurant's former existance over the exit.
