Spent the day stretching canvases and hiking abround the Navy Yard. Started working on three canvases: striped, Swiss cross, and the the two monoprinted together. These are just starting points. I like to begin at minimal abstraction… where my dad left off… and just see what is supposed to (or accidentally) happens after that. I’ll try and follow the progress of them over the coming months, etc.
Walking through Williamsburgh is a bit like falling into a Chagall painting. You Feel like you are in some mythical, Jewish world. If this wasn’t enought of a tear in the fabric of space/time continuum, walking by Brooklyn Navy Yard makes you feel like you have fallen into the ’40s. It’s all rather decrepid now, but I still marvel at the shear scale of American Industrial might at that time. You can’t help but imagine all those battleships and merchant Marine Victory Ships sliding down into the east river with a Champagne splash.
You can still see one of the earliest radars in America. It is two toweres with some wires spanned between them. If I recall correctly, it was a gift from the British to protect the ship building yard and also to play around with and get a grip on the technology. The British had tons of these towers along their coast. 
This one just sits above the New Hollywood…Steiner Studios. Looks a bit like the Paramount Lot and only adds to the fourties nostalgia.
