magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

A few weeks ago I got an IM from Er!n. She was recently back in the city for her last year at Cooper Union. We chatted for a while, talked about hanging out at some point. We hadn't really been in touch in a little over a year. The next day we randomly ran into each other on the street in the West Village, but she was rushing off to meet friends and I was waiting where I was to meet some of my own. We got a quick cup of coffee that weekend, but again had other places to be.

We finally got the chance to catch up tonight. Dinner at Angelica Kitchen (where I ran into Dylan). Then a couple bottles of wine in her Cooper studio with a few of her art school friends. I definitely miss that sense of studio camaraderie. You can always talk with your art school alumni friends about art, but it's something else entirely to be able to wander into their studio and see what they are working on, bounce ideas off of them, draw on their walls.

Or, well that last one has to do with the fact that Cooper Union in tearing down one of their buildings soon. They've already moved all the classrooms and administrative offices out of it, which means that they kids who still have studios there have huge spaces, and can do pretty much whatever they want with them. But they are also going to have to pack up and move out before the end of the semester and either cram into the school's other, already populated studio spaces, or move out to Queens.

But the freedom to draw on the walls, couple with the art making going on around me, prompted me to complete my first Kilodot project in NYC, or at least the dotting/photographing stage of it.