Sunday, October 6, 2019

some New York walls


Here this evening, gone tomorrow ... not these pieces of wheatpasting, but me, grabbing a very quick moment or three here on my way back from the Princeton conference.  Disappointingly, it's grey and drizzling, but all the same I had a good walk around.  Imagine!  there is now a Whole Foods on the Bowery!  For those of us who have known NYC for over forty years, that is beyond inconceivable - although there again, so is the whole concept, or at least the scale, of Whole Foods.  I used to subsist on salads - mostly lettuce and garbanzo beans - from those endless take-out diners (if that's not an oxymoron) that had rather limp salad bars down the middle of the store, with an occasional - a very occasional - treat of tortelloni salad from the Balducci's that used to be around 13th street, I think.  

For those of you intrigued by the idea that Freedom is a New Kitten,

LA LIBERTE EST UN NOUVEAU CHATON is a Photo Zine of staged but vibrant photographs which tell the story of a young woman arriving in New York City to establish a modelling career, but instead finds meaning - not in the bright lights and allure of money and fame, but in the simple pleasures of compassionately caring for an orphaned kitten.The strange adventure begins when her new pet is kidnapped...

The characters of the story are themselves played by high-fashion models recognisable from their work for big name brands and fashion magazines.

So now you know.  

All the other collage/posters may be considered as writing prompts.





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