Iskon Temple Paintings

03.20.13 | No Comments

 

Iskon Temple, Vrindavan, India

03.19.13 | No Comments

someone handed me a rose

 

Gopinath Bhavan

03.18.13 | No Comments

After the wedding Jes and I decided to find a nice quiet place to relax and retreat. We stayed at a the Gopinath Bhavan temple in Vrindavan, India for about a week.

It certainly was a very spiritual space and it gave us time to disconnect from the digital world and connect with our inner world. My days were spent mostly alone relaxing, reading, doing yoga, eating the healthy vegetarian meals they provided for us, and working on my photography.

After 20 years of taking yoga classes, I finally started my own personal morning practice too!

Here is Jes’ more detailed blog post about our week at the women’s ashram.

the highlight of my stay was meeting Tungavidya Devi Dasi, the lovely director of the temple

my room

electricity went out at least once a day, so I would often read by candlelight

we ate our meals on this simple floor

there is a river right outside the temple, but I preferred the cool marble rooms of the temple

 

City Palace in Udaipur, India

03.08.13 | No Comments

Goodbye Goa!

03.02.13 | No Comments

my token India cow photos

Mutek 2012

06.12.12 | No Comments

Heading to Montréal for Mutek every year is always very inspirational and fun! Here are some vacation snapshots.

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills

St. James Church exterior

St. James Church interior

St. James Church interior

Old Fashioned Camera Shop

Kink

Alex Smoke

Public Lover

Public Lover

Alex Smoke & Bryan

Palais des congrès de Montréal

Palais des congrès de Montréal

I love the new steps at SAT, light peaks through the glass circles

Fresh dumplings being made in Chinatown!

After a decadent Syrian food meal with Peter Van Hoesen and friends

Happy Hanukkah

12.01.10 | No Comments

Artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans talk about their stained glass window in the Museum at Eldridge Street. Their new design is the culminating piece of the 20-plus-year restoration of this national historic landmark, an 1887 synagogue. Smith and Gans’s design features a celestial motif – illuminated stars in a swirling pattern that evokes the Big Bang.
Listen to the story here

Stained-glass window by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans
in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue
Courtesy Museum at Eldridge Street

When can I move into my ice castle?

01.05.09 | No Comments

People visit an ice sculpture for the 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province December 23, 2008. The 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will kicked off on January 5, 2009. Picture taken December 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Sheng Li)

A castle constructed of ice prior for the 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, China on December 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Sheng Li)

Tara Donovan at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

11.25.08 | 1 Comment

I went to Boston for the Brainwaves three day music festival.  On Saturday I took a break from the dark theater of warm sounds and went on an excursion to the newly built Institute of Contemporary Art.  The ICA is a gorgeous temple of light, a perfect place to look at art.  The architecture truly rivals the art.  Plus they have the best museum elevator I ever rode on.  I was delighted to see that they had a very extensive show of Tara Donovan’s sculptures.  Donovan makes beautiful futuristic structures out of very common materials.  I was only able to take a few photos in the museum.

Be sure to look at the rest of her work on the Ace Gallery site.

ICA interior photo by Seze Devres

Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres

Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres

ICA Boston site

Skylight Geometry

04.30.08 | No Comments

Olafur Eliasson at the Museum of Modern Art.

04.18.08 | No Comments

I really wish I had been able to see Olafur Eliasson Take your time @ SFMOMA in San Francisco. He is one of my absolute favorite artists and I can’t wait to see his show in NY.

Like abstract painting, Mr. Eliasson’s art can be slow to reveal itself. In an installation called “Beauty” a rainbow emerges from a curtain of mist and vanishes. Maybe you see it; maybe you don’t. The illumination in an empty “white” room at P.S. 1 changes color all but imperceptibly as you watch: from white, to faint gray, to pale pollen beige, to lavender, one dissolving into the next like shifts in weather or the readings of a mood ring.