Greetings, Pilgrims,
It has been an unusually snowy and cold February in New York City, and I’ve taken lots of pictures. So I thought I’d share some, loosely thematically related, or maybe a couple of themes. For this first round, I’m thinking about plants, animals, and even humans coping, and art, maybe art as a form of coping?
The image above: waiting on the big storm, waiting on the spring. This is from Madison Square Park, ringed by great old buildings, most housing insurance companies. So waiting on events, too, profits and losses totted up over time, neat ledgers ticking off investments, deaths, benefits, the meaningful rendered as banal and in an impoverished if monetary sense precisely as possible. Expectancies, hopes, anxieties, downright fears, living in the possible future as opposed to the experienced now, the human’s pride and curse I guess. Plants probably have it easier, in this regard at least.
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