camminando | Cold Walks

Central Park is still snow covered and temperatures still several degrees below freezing; it is one of the coldest NYC winters I have ever experienced. Walks are often painfully cold although the multi-layer clothing. Below are visual memories of the urban spaces encountered on February 10 and the white Central Park toured on February 11.

A view of the Empire State Building from Fifth Avenue at 38 Street

The New York Public Library seen from West 42 Street

Times Square views

Broadway at 68 Street 

Total walk length: 4.5km

Views of Central Park from afternoon to evening

Total walk length: 7 km 

camminando + vernissages | January 9, Manhattan Upper, Mid & Lower East Side

Strolling in a cold frozen Central Park, with memories of last week snowstorm 

Midtown skyline approached from Central Park

Time & Money on 57 Street

Harry Callahan "CITY" @ Pace MacGill

Stopping at the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue,
on the way to the way to Richard Artschwager at Gagosian Uptown

A view of the Empire State Building, on the way to the Lower East Side

Emil Lukas at Sperone Westwater

Alex Prager "Face in the Crowd" @ Lehmann Maupin

New York | Home, Sweet Home

The 76-foot tall Christmas Tree at the Rockefeller Center lit by 45,000 energy efficient LED lights

On Wednesday I finally made it back to my home in New York. My small Upper West Side apartment felt like a palace and the neighborhood was a comfortable, reassuring place; it is interesting how places change in our perceptions. Yesterday I walked again through my neighborhood and doing simple errands was like a treat: a visit to Apple Store and its "genius"  bar, shopping at Trader Joe's. I missed so much the crowded street, the density of this city as well as familiar places and comfort which I was not able to replace in my almost nine months.
Yesterday we drove by Fifth Avenue, as it was raining heavily. The Christmas decorations, bright lights brought reassurance to the difficult family situation I am currently facing; 2013 has been definitely a challenging year!

camminado NYC | October 6 from Sunrise to Sunset

My walking started with the sun rising on the Central Park lake

 My walking day continued to Chelsea, passing by the Apple store, quite interesting and puzzling to see the "shrine" of candles, apples and sticky notes to Steve Jobs...

I arrived to Chelsea in time to see the sun setting behind the New Jersey skyline from the Hudson river.

My evening continued at the Chelsea Art Museum, opening "Black Zero" by the Italian artist Aldo Tambellini: a retrospective exhibition of paintings, sculpture, lumagrams, videograms, film, video, and television work (1960-1990).

On my way back another monochromatic enigmatic vernissage at the Art Gate Gallery, showing Peter Gregorio "The Many World Interpretations"