Storyfort Boardwalk

Sad to see President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’s term come to an end. - Moving in to this new year of my practice. - Getting back to my archive of nature photography I’ve shot in our National Parks, and on our shorelines viewing New York Harbor. - Recently having seen video footage my mom shot visiting my dad when he was in the Marine Corp Reserves in the late 60s/early 70s—the youth of America then - Thinking about American Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, and his very recent work. “Rough And Rowdy Ways” continues to express the characterization of the American spirit - Looking toward what my work can do, intersecting the Italian-American immigrant story with New York City’s past 125 years. Intersecting Fabulism; Commedia dell’Arte; the history of the Workers movement; folk wisdom; city life; American working class lives; the wide (and also problematic) history of the Catholic Church; the history of Opera; American Polular Culture and its proliferation - Besides integrating my Italia...

6am. I miss Chicago this morning; wish I were out walking out & about there.

I’m in Roosevelt Park, working. (Menlo Park. Metuchen, New Jersey.)

Lt. John H. Martinson Park (NYC).  Koch Blvd, Staten Island. (Abutting P.S. 55.) I love the mini-amphitheaters in some city playgrounds for children’s entertainment, performances, etc. 

On the Origins of Visual Art Philosophy