Yesterday morning I had one of those dreams in which you rediscover a forgotten room in your dwelling. In this case, I actually rediscovered one forgotten, unused room, and discovered for the first time an outdoor space as well. The room was a kitchen– long and glossy white. It had been set up after the… Continue reading doorways in nod
Author: edaggarart
Baedeker
In addition to an unwieldy collection of forks, I have a small collection of these old guidebooks. I first heard of them in A Room with a View, wherein intrepid traveler and lady novelist Eleanor Lavish despises both the books and the tourists who use them– proclaiming every copy should be "flung into the Arno."… Continue reading Baedeker
Clinton Hill house
Well, I haven't done any drawings since about Wednesday of last week, but I have been working on re-visiting an abandoned canvas, begun last year in the summer. (Here is where it stood prior to this weekend.) It's gone in quite a different direction from the monochromatic Amsterdams of 2007. I've incorporated a cartographic element… Continue reading Clinton Hill house
The windows are O P E N ! and... Beginning tomorrow : one extra hour of daylight!
more maps
These are maps of upper and lower Block Island; drawings I did of our bicycle adventures when we were there for a few lovely days back in September. These were done in a small accordion-fold Moleskine, called also a Japanese album. The accordion-fold sketchbook is pretty brilliant because you can make up your layout and… Continue reading more maps
60º
Hey Hey! Tomorrow is slated to be sixty degrees outside! So exciting. Also exciting: we've just booked our first Fire Island weekend; this time in Cherry Grove– and a whole posse of Brooklynites will be out there on the same weekend so I'm sure it will be *fun times!* Today has been the least productive… Continue reading 60º
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Random things I remember from 4H
s l o w
I don't know if it also has anything to do with the weather, but the internet is frightfully slow today. My connection is, at any rate.
s n o w
The Northeast corridor is swathed in snowstorms and it's good enough to be the News all morning, apparently. Brooklyn is blanketed in white, but it doesn't look like the sort that's going to last very long (see above). The sounds of snowplows could be heard overnight and in the early hours. A scraping, and immense… Continue reading s n o w






