camminando | A Walk in Central Park at the End of Storm

The winter storm Grayson, also called the "bomb cyclon" is almost over and protected by several layers of clothing I venture to Central Park. The park has turned into black & white visual memories, loosing his seasoned colors in the grey sky and the overwhelming white of the snow.

camminando | New York Snowstorm, March 14

It was not the major blizzard anticipated by the weather report. Yet Central Park returns to its majestic white ocean 'look'.
Today has been bitterly cold, temperature went down to 22° degrees Fahrenheit, equivalent to -5° Celsius.

Thoughts | 2017 Year Resolution and First Snowstorm in NYC

Uncannily the first snowstorm of 2017 in New York coincides with the first storm of the year in my family life. Uncanny is the adjective which best describes how my personal life events are situated within a general social context. Or perhaps such link is not really uncanny but that be explained in a very fast two-way ripple effect from the private to the public or the personal to the political realm.
    For over two years I have  thrown in the dystopian world of divorce : greed driven strangers dig their claws into the most personal life of confused individuals. There is no regulation to such display of human cruelty and greed: vultures wearing suits do not respect grief or intimate relationships. I am referring to divorce attorneys, one of the worst examples of human nature I have ever encountered.
    The past few years' year resolution have failed, due to struggling with pressure from life events independent from my control. This year I have decided of not making any new year resolution. The acceptance of what I can control and recognition of what I cannot will be driven my resilience plan for the upcoming year.

The first snowstorm of 2017, from Central Park

camminando & vernissage | A White Equinox Night in New York

Urban snowscape: Broadway, at 71st Street

The March equinox 2015, which is also the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, is greeted by snow in New York, as the latest of the multitude of snowstorms hitting the Northeast extends to springtime. White is color du jour, overpowering the darkness of the night with the snow-laced trees of the New York urban grid streetscapes.

White is also the dominant color of "Cyclicscape", Mariko Mori exhibition which opened at Sean Kelly, in this snow dominated evening. The opening also included a performance in collaboration with composer Ken Ikeda. Excerpts from the press release state the intent of the work:

Cyclicscape will present ten new sculptures exploring Mori’s interest in Möbius forms and the endless universe of new physics theory. Variously called “ekpyrotic” or “cyclic” cosmology, this theory posits that the universe did not begin from one singular “Big Bang” but that our cosmos is filled with continuously repeating cycles of evolution, including possible parallel universes and an ever-expanding formation of new galaxies and planets.
     In Cyclicscape, Mori’s sculptural works play with the infinite loop of the Möbius strip as a visualization of our universe’s never-ending renewal of invisible energy. Futuristic and ethereal, the large-scale aluminum and stainless steel works seem to transcend their physical matter. With no beginning, middle, or end, the forms symbolize an eternal cycle of existence — of nature and the universe in perpetual motion.
    Inspired by nature’s invisible energy, the eight computer-generated photo-paintings in the exhibition are based on drawings Mori made in front of the ocean on Okinawa Island. Focused on a microscopic cosmos we can only imagine, Mori’s swirling particles and rotating atoms seem to radiate a phenomenal light and electricity. From the primal particle to the multiverse, Cyclicscape deepens Mori’s ongoing investigation into the interconnectedness of all things and a belief in a fundamental symbiosis between art and technology.

Mariko Mori

Sculptural explorations of the Möbius strip, in aluminum and fiberglass

Computer generated photo paintings

Images from the performance, with composer Ken Ikeda at the synthesizer

Walk Length: 7.25 km

camminando | Night Snow

Today we (in New York) witnessed one of the first snowstorm of the season. There was not too much drama, just a cold grey day and finally a quick enjoyment of the softness of the light patina on the tree laces. It was comforting after the troubling news of the day.

West 77 Street, 18:55 EST

Central Park, 20:01 EST

camminando | Sun Farm Deep Snow

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