shadow and light

I used to think of fire escapes as visual clutter to the city's architecture like metal scribbling over a building's facade. But now I'm so used to seeing them hang off of old buildings I enjoy looking at the extra layers of texture and patterned shadows thrown against the wall. They're not always pretty but are infinitely interesting.

Upper West Side -

around 85th and Amsterdam

28th St. at 6th Ave.

Imagine

I was in Junior High School when Julie the rebel punk rocker ran into art class crying hysterically and wrote over the entire chalkboard that John Lennon was dead. At the time I knew he was one of the Beattles, but not sure which one.

I came across Lennon's memorial covered with flowers today, I think they were laid there to commemorate the 9-11 event. It has been 27 years now since Lennon was assasinated, and when I remember it I think about the most beautiful and most sad song I know.

Strawberry Field - Central Park

Richard Serra at the MOMA

If you looked at a Richard Serra sculpture

like a painting it would look like this.

But nobody really sees it that way, it is so huge you could notice it from a mile away -and when you come up to it you are compelled to continue walking through. The metal slabs curve as if they are molding out the empty space, changing the light and carving out a profile against the sky.