Category: Thoughts

  • Home, Familiarity, Perspective

    Home, Familiarity, Perspective

    There is always a search to find your favorites in a home – special edge of the sofa that you can claim as yours, favored seat at the dining table, perfect side of the bed, your dearest view outside the window. In a space like home where things are already familiar, it is fascinating how…

  • august in new york

    august in new york

    everything is so ruminative about august it’s the last cry, last burst, last time summer stands before you last chance to hear thousands of ac units hum like the wind above the water last chance to smell evening dinners from clanking plates in neighboring patios last chance to race to lick the gelato dripping down…

  • History, Preservation, Identity

    History, Preservation, Identity

    Recently, I passed by the renovating Domino Sugar building on the Williamsburg waterfront. Standing at more than 10 floors tall, broad frame, dark bricks, curved windows, this 19th century building harkens to a time when intricacy was prized. It’s firmly devoid of efficiency. The developers are keeping the external facade of the building more or…

  • Born to Perceive, Live to Create – Part 2

    Born to Perceive, Live to Create – Part 2

    Following up on my piece on modern day consumption habits, I wanted to share some thoughts around what I am doing to be more mindful about what I consume. To start off, I want to address something. Am I completely impervious to all forms of consumption habits and trends? No, and that would honestly be…

  • Born to Perceive, Live to Create

    Born to Perceive, Live to Create

    When you enter the Chauvet cave in France, you are transported to a different world. This cave that remained untouched for thousands of years is rugged, ancient, and yet familiar. Horses, lions, owls are suspended on the cave walls, and drawn with such perfection in chiaroscuro some 30,000 years ago that it feels like the…

  • seasons, plants, people, rocks

    seasons, plants, people, rocks

    Each season embodies a character and the natural world plays its dramaturgically complex part perfectly. Nature even involves us intimately to partake in this performance and we follow its lead more closely than we think. I will admit my love for seasons comes after a recent change of heart. Seasons can feel like a nuisance…