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Event 356 "Anniversary"-
32" x 24"
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Limestone Dust, Oil, Acrylic, Emulsion, Wax, Pigment on Canvas.
What you see is not what I had intended for this canvas. I did have an intention for this piece but sometime during the third layer of painting it turned into the sketch you see here. I want to catalog the event as I will probably paint over this
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Maybe I noticed them subconsciously beforehand but I felt this was New York City before noticing the WTC in the skyline. The NYC skyline is so distinctive, both before and after. There is no mistaking it. This is a beautiful piece.
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I loved the old skyline... loved it. I went up to the Windows on the World viewing area a couple of times. ...
Thank you.
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I've only been to NYC twice but it remains my favorite city in the world to which I have a deep connection. We didn't stay long so I didn't see many of the sites, but yeah, the skyline is iconic. I never got to see it in person before the Towers fell but the skyline took my breath away regardless.
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That's such a shame.
Do you remember going over Washington bridge for the first time after having taken the highway from the airport? So, you saw the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building and what I still think of as the Pan-Am building kinda', in the middle right of the city? Well imagine, perfectly balancing those buildings, but way downtown, these two ... reality defying buildings that just perfectly balanced the whole city into a vast architectural sculpture... and you were about to enter into it. That's how it felt. Plus I got vertigo standing at the bottom and looking up. They really were something else. *shrug*
ugh, you probably don't want to know... but thanks for the memories.
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No, that was beautiful, thank you so much for the visualization! I remember just being overwhelmed with awe - NYC was really the first big city I'd ever gone to. I mean, I was familiar with Pittsburgh, Mexico City, etc, but New York has this unique flavor to it that can only be described as New York. The New York, the quintessential big American city with a mythic history, feel, everything.
I remember walking back with my father from a Broadway show, and everyone was screaming, running around -- one of the old saltbox buildings was being fumigated, and a swarm of cockroaches were emerging from the foundation, scattering in the evening glow. I was enthralled, not disturbed at all, because I was just so amazed: "These aren't just cockroaches. These are New York cockroaches."
I feel like I'm the epitome of the person jaded New Yorkers find absolutely ridiculous & annoying but the very idea of those neon lights kept me warm some nights sometimes. In reality, I could never live in NYC -- too much stimulation, not to mention the cost and health hazards of living in a well-established city -- but it's definitely, in its own ways, a second kind of home.
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Thanks.
Yes, I loved New York for years before I visited, I loved the Greenwich Village scene, the music and all that. Plus the MET and galleries... just the vibe, in all the different parts of the city. Very special. Unique... through time as well, New York City over the decades has taken on very different energies that were specific to the times it was in.
Yeah, I have one of those anecdotes, but with rats. One time I arrived in NY and within two hours I met a bunch of vampires, ended up, (yes seriously), ended up spending most of that trip doing everything at night... anyway, one morning at about 2 a.m. or so, a couple of us are walking to this club in the west village and you know those thin alleyways that make you feel like you're in old London, well, we were walking down one of these. There was a pile of garbage in the sidewalk in front of us and there was this rat, about the size of a dachshund, just going to town on whatever was in there. Suffice to say /it/ didn't care to cater to us and cross the road, so we had to...and were happy to do so. Thing was straight out of James Herbert. Still, I got to meet a NYC rat that night. Is a memory. Thanks dog-rat.
So I know what you mean about the cockroaches, their local is enough to give them a certain status. heh
Jaded /anyones/, not just New Yorkers, are just being egotistical and subtly saying "I /live/ here, so I'm ultra cool and you don't know shit", it's a power play, fuk em'. *smile* But again, I know what you mean by that and yes I couldn't live there, I might have back in the day but no way now, unfortunately.
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This was wonderful to read - I appreciate the story and that you shared this memory with me.
Also, NYC vampires? That sounds very poetic. But after all, NYC is the City that Never Sleeps.
I imagine some of the best poems in NYC are written at night. The few memories I got to make there were.
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Thanks. *smile*
Yes, indeed, NYC Vampires, tell me that doesn't ring true? This was in the 90s' though, I don't know what's going on there now, heard there was stuff going on in Paris last time I knew, which is a while ago.
Oh, I would expect so... funny, I like nature more, but some cities are undeniably romantic, Amsterdam is another one for poetry... and I always wanted to visit Bruges at night.
Yeah... memories.
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It rings absolutely true if we're talking vamp culture. If we're talking real vampires, my jury's still out on that haha but I'm sure there's a kind of scene in every major city. And yeah, I definitely prefer nature but when it comes to the social element, cities tend to have some space for me. Small towns never have any space at all. But I'm extremely introverted and easily overstimulated so it's a bit of a catch-22.
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It was an amazing time, I've been really quite lucky in that I have had a lot of experiences that I wasn't expecting.
Well, there's a goth scene in most cities, but specifically vampire I just know of NYC, LA, New Orleans and Paris.
Yeah, same, nature first, cities for, well... whatever culture there is and then it's back to nature.
I live in a small town now, accurate, I never go out.
I lived in the centre of a city most of my life... and yes, I'm also an utter loner plus the anxiety and sensitivity. So, yes, catch-22. Cities drain the energy and nature gives it.
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I strayed from the goth scene in the early 2010s because I had never actually met goths irl -- then I did, and found another mirror of society within the group. I wasn't accepted because I was too dark and too different in a subculture that runs on the platform of supposedly loving things that are different and darker than the mainstream so I became extremely disillusioned with the whole thing. I love vamp fashion though, it's definitely my style, but I've never met people in the vamp circle specifically. I feel like they might be more my jam but Idk. 
"Cities drain the energy and nature gives it."
I agree completely.
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hahah no way... same here, I was always like, "so where's the /actual/ goth scene then"?
I kinda found the level I was looking for in the V sub culture, after that I couldn't even enter a goth club, it was like going to nursery school. I want my goths to be really brooding and you know, but you meet these goths, and they are like, happy, wtf. hehe
Yeah, I got totally disillusioned with it all, after years of confusion I eventually admitted that I was doing it /right/ in my head, but that wasn't what was actually happening in the world, that beauty didn't exist. Which, I mean if that's not goth level nihilism I don't know what is. lol
Right, vamp fashion. I eventually became a 'fang-smith', and had a business for a while called 'Black Dove', making bespoke fangs, you know dental tech stuff, with dental acrylic, like dentures, but a lot, lot sharper... but yes, the corsets and what-not, cool fashions.
"I think I'm just an odd & end of society. My tribe is essentially made up of other (beautiful) odds & ends who I wouldn't trade for the world."
I love that description, yes!
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a solo show--you must have had?
several?
to see what was put together -the space between..the room--oh-i hate sterile galleries...but--oh--i'd love to see your work in your studio=not in a gallery or museum--well--i hope for it--but not til i see them in your studio first!! please???????
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I have had a couple of solo shows, yes, but my work tends to dislike sterile environments.
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The anniversary of the planes hitting the towers.
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It did not make me think about WTC, but rather of a cold morning and a city seen from a frozen lake. Sorry if the anniversary was meant to be for NYC.
I feel this in a much more appeased way.
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I wouldn't paint over this...It was obviously meant to be painted as is.
The fact that the building are black as the event that took place there & the surrounding white (like a sheet of paper or a death shroud) just adds to the whole feel of the piece.
Many lives were changed that day & continue to change...
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Looking at it this morning I'm inclined to keep it as is and put it up in the house somewhere...
It wasn't planned at-all and happened like that...which is why I wanted to catalog it...guess it needed to come out, like thousands of people I have a very personal attachment to the event...thanks Gloria!
They were and they do...
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Have my Fav. on random & was getting ready to log off as I have a busy day planned when I noticed the 2 fav. that were up your "Anniversay" & 's "9:11:01"
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And it made me wonder if maybe we shouldn't just stay home today!
That's what terrorism does it makes you afraid to live (enjoy) your everyday life.
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Don't let them stop you living your life...that way they win, that's my philosophy!
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I appreciate that a lot, thanks...
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i like this,
its great how things can turn out different from what you intended,
sometimes even turn into something you would not normally think of
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yep...that's art for you, always an adventure...
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is it really nice?.....it reminds me of the WTC and all related catastrophies especially in September
anyway a cityscape....beautifully painted!
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