Learning to live with the pandemic, looking forward to Summer.
May 25th, 2020
Tag: walking in new york
During lockdown, Central Park was our lifeline to sanity
It is in times like these that we realise the importance of being close to Nature.
May 10th, 2020
Lockdown Streching (walking South, learning to speak French)
Greenwich Village to South Street Sea Port district via the World Trade Center.
They Were The Last Three by Gillie and Marc, 2019
Featuring the only remaining northern white rhinos in the world, Fatu, Najin, and Sudan in existence in 2018
May 2nd, 2020
Lockdown Stretching
In Central Park
April 25th, 2020
Masked Up
New York was desperately sick and awfully scary but, every now and then, we had to leave our glass bubble and get out for some air. Masks were still not mandatory, CDC had just started recommending ‘cloth face coverings’, and we began brushing up on our sewing skills.
April 8th, 2020
Saturday Evening In Manhattan
Empty spaces, eerily quiet. Lincoln Center was sparkling as usual, as if the bright lights could chase away the loneliness.
Earlier that day, Governor Cuomo had reported the first two deaths related to coronavirus.
March 14th, 2020
Avoiding densely populated places
An impossible feat in Manhattan but, for a few days at the start of the pandemic – before New Yorkers were ordered to stay at home – Hudson River Greenway between Hell’s Kitchen and Lincoln Center, normally as busy as it gets, fell strangely quiet.
March 8th, 2020
Vertigo
In New York, you can get it just by looking from the ground up.
February 5th, 2020
Kleindeutschland, St. Marks Place
On our way to the Swiss Institute, we passed by this wonderfully preserved building. Back home I looked it up, and it was only then I realised that the area was once the centre of Lower Manhattan’s German community. No coincidence then, that the Swiss chose the very same location for their Art Institute.
Deutsche-Amerikanische Schützen Gesellschaft || German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse
12 St. Mark’s Place. Built 1888-89. Designed by William C. Frohne, architect
A standing reminder of the important German immigrant community, the majority of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, in the 19th century, when the area was known as Kleindeutschland || Little Germany
Raúl de Nieves || Humility (999), 2018. Resin, beads, dirt, artist hair. [detail] 
Ramaya Tegegne || Genzkens/Wilsons, 2019. One of five Nefertiti bust replicas, with sunglasses 
Raúl de Nieves || Humility (999), 2018. Resin, beads, dirt, artist hair. [detail] 
Raúl de Nieves || Humility (999), 2018. Resin, beads, dirt, artist hair. [detail]
January 19th, 2020
City of Lights, City of Shadows
Lower Manhattan
January 12th, 2020
The Humble Fabulist 