camminando | Finding Beauty in the City, While Chasing the Sun

While the divorce brutality continues, I am still able to find a few moments of solace while walking.
I am chasing the sun path —east, south, west— toward the sun setting behind the Hudson river, which I celebrate with my "finding the axis mundi" yoga inspired practice.

  I enjoy views framed by the arches in the Central Park; bridle horse path are the theme du jour.

Until the darkness of the night leads to north...hopefully night will bring rest and sleep, in the hope of a more peaceful day. In the meantime I bow to the healing power of beauty.

Total walk length: 15km

camminando | A Walk in Manhattan, July 16

A goodbye to the sun

Skyline from Columbus Circle

A view of Seventh Avenue

Looking up: Empire State Building Views

The Flat Iron Building

The High Line

Sun setting behind the Hudson river

Tenth Avenue at dusk

"Finding the Axis Mundi" flow in Chelsea, with the sun setting behind the Hudson River

Total walk length: 29km

vernissages | Center for Book Arts

Two exhibitions at Center for Book Arts draw attention on the book as art form, beyond the analog object we are familiar with. 

The exhibition /mit ðə detə/: Source Materials Visualized presents "artists’ books, book-related artworks, and text-based new media that are visual interpretations, extrapolations, and recontextualizations of researched source materials such as data analysis, surveying, mapping, plotting, data mining, statistics, analytics, observations, and schemes." Here books as object include even the embodiment or visualization of digital data, where electronic quantified realities are presented with an aesthetic statement.

The exhibition Embraced: the International Community  is the fourth and final exhibition of the Center’s 40th anniversary year-long celebration; it "examines the influence the Center has had on the international book arts scene as well as the international artists who have come to the Center to study, exhibit, or teach".

performances | "Drawing Sound" at the Drawing Center

Last night’s Drawing Sound performance at Soho’s Drawing Center on Wooster Street brought together new works in drawing and music by Billy Martin and String Nose, as well as incorporated odors in a “scentstallation” created by Phaedra Martin.

While the images by Martin were projected on the walls, the performers reacted to, improvised on, or played pre-written music  on their music stands .  It wasn’t clear if there were direct intersections between the visual and audio, but the music was masterfully played, including Ned Rothenberg on shakuhachi and Martin himself on percussion. Fung  Chern  Hwei played a very warm, romantic violin, and John Zorn dropped in with his saxophone.

The concert ended with a three-minute, seemingly tightly-organized composition with strong ensemble playing.   The concert seemed a fusion of loft music and the always-energetic, improvisatory downtown scene.

Elizabeth Davis

camminando | July 5, Rockaway Beach and Jacob Riis Park

My first 2015 immersive encountered with the Atlantic Ocean has occurred on July 5, at Rockaway Beach. 
The beach outing turned into a five-mile walk, from Jacob Riis Park to the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, at 102 Street.
The yoga based practice "Finding the Axis Mundi" was located at 40.562584, -73.878594

Finding the Axis Mundi at Jacob Riis Park