out of the tunnel

underground portraits

IF - entangled

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's
views of how I should have done it." -Toni Morrison

subway group

content

women in transit

seated

the hat

subway passenger

IF - music

"To stop the flow of music would be like stopping the flow of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." -- Aaron Copeland

recent visit to the Met

A small rest in the Manet room brought visitors to sight.

Several people carrying small youngsters.

across spaces....

a person's personality can appear merely by the gesture or shapes of her form.

The simple light and dark reveals character as much as the spoken word.

model at rest

2nd avenue bus reader

the letter

Reading a letter, or doing anything inherently intimate or personal, on the subway, always preserves that unspoken agreement that we all pose as strangers.

They could be spys

but are actually TV talking heads talking about cyber crimes. I'll stay with spys.

IF - unbalance

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance,
may not be a lie." Susan Sontag

subway platform

Georgina, a new painting

rasta

I enioy drawing people on the subway and buses.

Its a chance to get in a quick sketch with a model who is basically unmoving.

Jay Street Borough Hall

mother and child and reaching

light

IF - blur

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."--Arnold Toynbee

lady on a bus

6 train big guy

culture monger on the 6 train

model from the Soviet Union

Second Avenue bright sun