I’m currently on the third volume of In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past). I love the surprising ways I can identify with this guy. For example take this passage: “I was merely the instrument of habits of not working, of not going to bed, of not sleeping, which had to fulfill themselves …
On Thursday, before Huck went running toward a flight of stairs, tripped and fell into a wall which broke two bones in his arm, and required an ambulance, 9 hours in the ER, sedation (morphine), two attempts at resetting the bones, I visited NYU’s Grey Gallery during lunch to see Toxic Beauty: the Art of …
HUSK set up a table at the Wyckoff Country Fair on Saturday. The Wyckoff Farmhouse in Canarsie is the oldest house in NYC still on its original location. We brought our usual bag of tricks Gowanus Brooms, Lenape Corn, Cornbread, as well as Mugwort Soap and a new corn grinder which turned out to be …
I’m working on a collage of NY Harbor made from 16th-17th Maps from the “Age of Discovery”. The map collage will ultimately be an image for a seed packet I’m designing for the distribution of corn seeds.
This morning I put on a pot of water to boil. I carefully peeled the first cocoon from the dried leaf surrounding it. When the water started a rolling boil I turned down the heat just a little bit. Then I dropped the cocoon in. In order to get the silk from the cocoon you must …
There were only three survivors of our original 5. One ended up in the compost by accident. Another perished while at Jeff’s. But today we actually have two cocoons and one caterpillar. We are not totally sure where this project is going and what the next steps are, but how exciting its been to see …
I took a ride out to the Wykoff Farmhouse in Canarsie to check out the garden and see how the Lenape Corn that Jason Gaspar, the caretaker, planted. The corn looked great, very vigorous and healthy. He got it in the ground a little late so it’ll be a late harvest. Afterwards I pedaled …
We have four thriving silkworms (two pictured above) . It would have been five, but unfortunately I think one ended up in the compost pile a couple evenings ago when I was cleaning their container. Huck and I triple counted but I couldn’t find the fifth. In any case the survivors are doing well on …
I recently saw Les Bien-Amies and I’m trying to put my finger on it — what is so magical about the films of Christophe Honoré? His films are melancholy but not depressing and despite the darkness there is plenty of charm and compassion. Infidelity, premature death, incest, bisexuality, love, sex, unhappiness, obsession are among the …
The American Folk Museum has curated a show Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions that is currently on display at the Southstreet Seaport Museum. I thought it would be a fun thing to take Huck to. And it was — a great collection of objects, paintings and drawings many of which he responded to. Huck liked …
Just one day after my lament that all caterpillars were gone I found this one crawling on a stem! And yesterday when we opened the container we counted FIVE live ones!