I am now sitting on the floor Japanese style at laptop typing this in the new digs! Somebody Pinch me cause I must be dream’n! The day finally came when I left the place I thought I’d never leave, the East village, so the road must be a rising yes! Seriously, I felt up until the last year still locked in to it’s streets which held all of me as it’s little happy prisoner for so so many years and which held so many stories and chapters of my life. Of course things must change, I’m just so grateful I came when I did to the Lower East Side and reaped all of it’s glory which will forever be a part of me.
For a long while maybe since 2004 I started to feel the old East village really begin to slip away, with the new high rises soaring way too high I’d wonder to myself again and again isn’t there that law which states you can’t build higher then 12 stories or so? guess the hell not! Sadly! I witnessed and held my breath and tried to remain positive when the rawness went and in came the slick. When most all of my people moved out and the Bowery got itself a mega makeover and it’s own Hotel to boot, I knew the gig was soon to be up. And now, change at last, really great neighborhood with a cool mix of people, much bigger space, so much wall space o hang my paintings, lets just say you get a lot more for your money here and I’m still here in NYC just up a ways on the east side. The light here is amazing and all my paintings look better to me and I have just set up my studio and dove right in and painted last night for first time and lets just say it felt good, real good. I also now have more room for the jewelry making too. So we are making house swiftly and on cloud # nine.
After about 2 and a half months being all about the new apt, with all of it out of the way I can get down to catching up with all my work including blogging, Yeah! Finally some normalcy! Here’s to new beginnings just a wee ways north! Hope you all are well and enjoying this amazing spring!
Taking a much needed break here in Tompkins Square Park from packing up old apartment , March 2010
and this is how I felt when the move was all over!
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