It seemed to make perfect sense at the time. Just take a two hour class to learn how to drive a manual transmission car. It was August, and I was going away for a long weekend to further expand my boat hull series in Buenos Aires - a city where renting an automatic transmission vehicle is an apparent impossibility. Taking that one class just three days before my departure also seemed about right - what could be so difficult? The two hour class ended up involving only abou

While I'm sorry to see my solo show at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton come to an end, I'm happy that it has been extended for an extra week, now through this Sunday, November 5th. Pictured above is "Tara", featured in the show. Want to know more? Give this article about the show from The East Hampton Star a read. Want to see more? Go to the gallery! Roman Fine Art: 66 Park Place, East Hampton, NY 11937. 917.797.8931 #Montauk #boat

As you may recall from a previous post ("What's In A Name?"), I have adopted the practice of naming my boat hull photos after the boats themselves. In addition to being a logically appropriate and organic naming process, it captures the fantastically evocative names that boat owners tend to give their vessels. I am nothing if not fully committed to this approach, but the many unnamed boats that I photograph result in more "Untitled" images than is tenable. Recently, I have

Right now I identify with the boat hull featured in this post in a big way. It's Exaltation, named after a feeling of elation, or extreme happiness - happiness so overwhelming that it cannot be extinguished by the annoyance of writing this post from a Sunday trip to the Southampton Hospital ER to get an x-ray for a possible broken foot. It's a big week for me. I'm showing several pieces from my boat hulls series at Art New York, one of the art fairs happening during the big

While I was traveling for work this past week, I stopped at an airport newsstand to see what reading material I could get as a back up to the book I'd brought with me, and instantly noticed the cover of the travel magazine Afar, which proclaimed that the new rule of travel was to "go solo." While I'm lucky enough to have a travel partner whom I love and love to travel with -- my fantastic husband, Charlie -- I admit that I also really enjoy traveling by myself. Afar notes tha

On the recommendation of a good friend, I'm reading Dataclysm, a book that examines the predictive and descriptive value of aggregated individual personal online data for human nature more generally. In the introduction, author Christian Rudder notes that heretofore our history has been told in terms of the lives of larger than life characters and heroes. In a past where the means of recording history (clay tablets, paper, newsprint, celluloid, etc.) has had clearly limited

Tuna Tangler...Prowler…Vortex…Blue Goose…Sea Hag 2 …Illusions…Oceania…Stargazer…Rampage…Thunderfish…Pipe Dream The tradition of naming boats was established thousands of years ago as a measure to protect against danger, as boats were named in honor of and as an appeal to the gods by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; and later after saints by Christians. However, as evidenced in the small sample above from boats that I’ve photographed, the sources of inspiration for

Miami! I’m so excited that I will be showing several of my Montauk boat hull photos at the Aqua Art Miami art fair during Art Basel week in Miami this December. I enjoy going to these shows in NYC during Armory week and in the Hamptons during the summer to see an array of art across all disciplines by artists that are both new and known to me, and sometimes to get a chance to chat with them about how they approach their work and its significance. I love this aspect of showi

I’m fortunate to have had a number of opportunities to exhibit my photos so far this year; in NYC, on Long Island, and elsewhere nationally. It’s fantastic to see firsthand reactions to photos that I’ve taken, and it’s an incredibly emotional and gratifying experience to hear how my work has resonated with someone. In addition to participating in a number of larger group shows, I was proud and thrilled to exhibit over 25 of my photos in a four-person show in June that I org