The Paper Crane

The weather has gone from bad to worse — yes­ter­day it alter­nated between snow, hail and then rain! Per­fect time to hide away in the stu­dio and cre­ate.  And if your art prac­tice got away from you dur­ing the hol­i­days (or even before) and you need some reminders of what…

Hel­l­l­l­loooo from Berlin!

It has been awhile, I apol­o­gize.  I was away for the hol­i­days — Jena, Ger­many for Christ­mas with my boyfriend and his fam­ily; Hid­densee (Cas­par David Friedrich coun­try) for New Years + a few days, and then I was back a week only to leave again…

Friends its Sat­ur­day night. Vis­ited with a friend that I haven’t seen in a year. She needed to make an early night of it. So here I am dis­solv­ing Braun­hirse Mehl in milch and keep­ing an eye on the brightly lit trees edg­ing the apart­ment house where a film crew…

The open­ing of the Wall at Berlin Born­holmer Strasse 1989

Here is great footage of that his­toric moment.

Tonight, some Ger­man friends of mine have orga­nized a din­ner at a restau­rant near Mauer Park to cel­e­brate this day.

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A meet­ing the other night with a play­wright research­ing char­ac­ters for a piece on Berlin has inspired think­ing about the city itself as a char­ac­ter, a per­son­al­ity and then draw­ing a con­nec­tion to the indi­vid­u­als living here.

The meet­ing

Last night I was apart of a panel dis­cus­sion lead by Read more »

Part One — Hid­den Bars, Cafes, Restaurants

This first focus is on Berlin’s attrac­tion to hid­den spaces writ­ten in two parts.

I am so fas­ci­nated with the whole hin­ter­hof (back court­yard) phe­nom­e­non in the archi­tec­ture here.  Some court­yards seem to keep expand­ing three or four times open­ing and nar­row­ing around you…