Liquor store, Sag Harbor, NY
May 2014
I bought Girl Scout Cookies from the man working in this liquor store. Four boxes between Adam and I. I had never eaten or seen them before - they were just a concept from movies and TV up until that moment.
Well, I can confirm they are pretty great. Samoas were my favorite - coconut and chocolate.
High Rocks, Wassaic, NY
August 2014
Emilie, Xinyi and Aidan (with Sheila the pup) at High Rocks.
Wildflowers, Wassaic NY
August 2014
Ryann gathering flowers for our kitchen table after we swam in the creek at High Rocks.
Between Armenia, NY and Sharon, CT
August 2014
Out the car window on a trip for groceries during my residency at Wassaic.
Lunch, Hamptons, NY
Memorial Day weekend, May 2014
I don't like lobster but I like everything about this restaurant, from the list of famous diners on the paper placemat to the homemade pies for dessert.
Smoke Bellow
The Compound, Baltimore, MD
July 2014
I spent an afternoon reading on the couch at the Compound in Baltimore while Smoke Bellow rehearsed for their upcoming tour. I don't know if it's an official name or just what everyone calls it, but the Compound is a farm, a home, a venue, artists studios and rehearsal space. While I was reading and listening to the distant sounds of Smoke Bellow practicing, a beautiful girl was weaving fabric on a large loom upstairs, and a sculptor was working on a tree trunk with a chainsaw outside.
Outside Baltimore, MA
July 2014
When winter finally ended this year I made a resolution to swim as much as I could once the weather warmed. Coming from a city in Australia with a subtropical climate, where I had a backyard pool as a kid and escaped to the beach with my sister many weekends, winters in the northeastern USA have not been easy. I never appreciated how lucky we were that in winter we would sometimes need to slip on a light sweater or a thin scarf at night.
So this year, I managed a few trips to the Rockaways, and some creek swims in the Hudson Valley, and this very cold swim with some very good people outside Baltimore in late July.
Me in my studio in Luther Barn, Wassaic. Photo by Jeff Barnett-Winsby
I spent August in a small hamlet called Wassaic, two hours north of New York City, making artwork in a beautiful barn from 1875. I have begun sharing work in my portfolio here and here. Read about the Wassaic Artist Residency on their website.