2017 ANNUAL REPORT / 4th QUARTER / FINAL REVIEW

October 2017: Visited New York for a working holiday. Meetings and inspirations!

New York City, as seen from Jersey City:

At Stonehill Taylor Architects ( Oct 24th ):

At Gensler NYC ( Oct 26th ):

The incandescent fall colours of the Adirondack Mountains, upstate New York:

Empire State Building, shrouded in low cloud ( a certain Gershwin song springs to mind ):

People watching:

LAWN ORDER

'HATE HAS NO HOME HERE'

While holidaying in New Jersey in October, we went strolling from South Orange, to Maplewood. Amongst all the usual fun Halloween garden displays, I was struck by these other types of messages on people's lawns ( see below ). They are from a side of American life that we, in Europe, rarely get to see: The Normal. Thanks to the media, all we hear about is mass shootings, sordid denouncements, foreign policy 'mistakes', vested interests and corporate cynicism. Algorithmically, what you see below does not get noticed in all that noise. But hopefully, in the real world, these affirmations have an impact. At the very least, it puts you in a better mood when you see them.

THIS WAY...UP?

I love seeing how people orientate my paintings. I never tell them which is the right way up because I don't even know.

Below: Controlled Explosion and Supercollider

( as currently seen in South Orange, New Jersey ).