A Modern Topiary
“I love the dialogue with nature in creating a piece that needs so much control—How many plants should be planted? How will these plants survive?—while at the same time giving […]
Category Archives: Ephemeral New York
A Great Actor get Graffitied
“I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.” —Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012) While clowning around in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section, I found this […]
A New York City Hawk
“The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him” —A Portuguese Proverb At the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, only six blocks north of its […]
Sugar, Its Bitter and Sweet Sides
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” —Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) In 1843 the sugar cube, a.k.a. […]
A Draftman’s Project on Union Square
“No! No! Valerie! Don’t do it!” —Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Warhol’s plea with his would-be assassin Valerie Solanas (1936–1988) I passed through Union Square soon after noon today. This busy cross […]
A Greenwich Village Townhouse and Garden
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) The earth need not only […]
Horse Sense, in a Sense
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” —W.C. Fields (1880-1946) During the early spring the office workers who use Bryant Park as […]
Art, Its Ephemeral Nature
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to […]
High Tech meets High Fashion
“Tyranny of amateurism today calls for the amateur to buy and successfully woo prominence in press and television media without devoting time to becoming the artisan of his craft.” —Charles […]
A Bit of Pink amid Gray Granite
Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark in Brooklyn, NY, is 478 acres of century-old trees, in addition to its century-old permanent residents. Oh! it is true that the cemetery remains […]
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