Michelle - July 24, 2007

It was so much fun to have Regis visit the city, that I decided to invite other friends to visit. The first to send me a picture was Michelle. She is a video artist who lived in Nolita when it was just called Little Italy and now lives in San Francisco. While Regis wanted to float over the places of his past, Michelle had places to visit and shopping to do.

First she visited an old friend on 96th street and Park Avenue.

Her picture looks a little like a stained glass window here

Then it was off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Next it was the Farmer's Market at Union Square.


I had wanted to come back and take a picture when the farmers were actually there marketing, but when I returned, her picture was gone.

So instead, here she is in Union Square which is looking very New York

And here is Michelle pointing her video camera towards the park

We moved on to Veniero's in the East Village which has great cakes and Italian pastry

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It isn't terribly photogenic however. It was hard to find a good place to hang the picture. 

We ended up in front of Pearl River, the Asian department store in Soho. It was very windy and hard to get Michelle to settle down to be photographed

I caught some pictures but not with Pearl River. Soho is always the best place to take pictures

This picture stayed in my mind after I shot it.

The disembodied hand, the sharp angles coming from Pearl River, the bit of tape at the bottom and the trace of Katsu; welcome back.