Sehsapsing Corn

This spring I sent some of the seeds to a grower in Pennsylvania. She recently sent me these pictures. I love that these beautiful corn seeds I started in Canarsie with the Maize Field project in 2010 are still being grown and shared.      

Article About Cats

I wrote this for BKLYNER.com http://bklyner.com/morbid-anatomy-museum-in-gowanus-and-bamcinematek-in-fort-greene-take-on-analog-cats/

Sold to the Ladies!

In 1936 three young working women from Manhattan made their way to Hamilton Avenue and the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal where they bid $160 on an old canal barge, fixed it up with their pals and some curious and amused Gowanus characters and eventually turned it into a summer home! This is one of the stories featured …

Dads

Here’s another reason I love living in NYC — on a random Wednesday night its possible to see an obscure classic of Soviet Cinema. Mne dvadsat let (I am Twenty) by Marlen Khutsiev was playing at MoMA last Wednesday.  It was a great, sprawling film. The MoMA description describes it as “evoking the spiritual, intellectual, and sexual …

Gowanus Underworld

Here’s an excerpt from a new project “Gowanus Underworld”  in collaboration with Amy Sohn,  opening October 1st at Trestle Projects:  For the project found objects along the waters are cast in concrete and displayed to conjure forgotten narratives of the neighborhood – going back 150 years – and audio recordings play monologues based on these tales. And …

Scrap paper sketch

I have a lot of scrap paper on hand to doodle on.      

Rejected!

Funding denied. Medusa head over Combined Sewage Output on the Gowanus Canal.