p h o t o s
2002

mantova and grazie (dec 02)
amadou, holly, and william
first course of a gazillion-course lunch including my introduction to lardo, an italian delicacy of thinly sliced fat
risotto with crunchy fried minnows and shrimps
william and robert demonstrate what not to do with said crunchy fried minnows: 1 2
swimming in fog
macabre life-sized wax dioramas of people about to die who were saved by prayer, in the santuario of santa maria delle grazie
each of those little body parts decorating the columns is an ex-voto per grazia ricevuta (an offering to the virgin mary for grace received)

bologna (nov 02)
clusters of old men congregate in piazza maggiore
the facade of san petronio is only half-fancy because midway through construction (in the 14th c.), money was diverted towards the creation of a new university
something i liked in the church
kristin and the neptune fountain (built in 1566)
detail
teatro anatomico -- the original medical faculty dissection theater
on thanksgiving day
hazy view from torre degli asinelli
red bologna (it's called that both because of the bricks and the leftists)
kristin's perfect orange

amsterdam (again) (nov 02)
happy amsterdam!
kristin and canal
"black peter" is santa claus's (un-p.c.) helper -- and if you've been bad, he'll carry you off to spain!
this is clearly some kind of metaphor...

torino (nov 02)
lucas at artissima
charlotte and me

paris (nov 02)
snowy peaks! (view from the super-fast tgv train)
the eiffel tower (view from the palais du tokyo, across the seine)
sacré coeur (the basilica of the sacred heart, in montmartre)
view from the top of the centre pompidou in beauborg
paris rooftops
thomas on rue st. honore
the ones i got
the ones that got away
self-portrait for ahmad

venezia (sept 02)
dennis and anamika on the vaporetto
the grand canal
the basilica di san marco
piazza san marco was flooded
near our hotel in the sestiere of san marco
rainy
santa maria della salute (a church in the sestiere of dorsoduro)
here lie peggy guggenheim's dead dogs
everything looks just like i thought it would
the grand canal and gondolas
inside the palazzo ducale
statue holding up a tomb in the frari (a church in san polo)
this amazing painting from katie was in the care package my sister brought from nyc

fashion week (sept 02)
andy and karen at the as four party
andy, ute, and karen
pantless fashionistas
fashionistas abound
karen contemplates

amsterdam (aug 02)
smart dutch urban design: you can sunbathe on parking lot roofs
i spent a lot of time sitting in parks...
...attempting to snap surreptitious pictures of my surroundings...
...and not doing a very good job of it (being surreptitious, that is)
party bicycle
only in amsterdam (#1) public art? no, public urinal!
only in amsterdam (#2) would they exhibit jeff koons' sculpture 'ushering in banality' inside a church
fantasy window of american processed-food products
boxing studio sign
my new exciting cartoony dutch rubber rain shoes
i stayed in the one with the yellow window frames
the cathedral in köln (where i stopped on the way back to milan)

milano
my neighbor nimna and his sister kaumedi on the balcony
sono molto carini (they're so cute!)
he insisted i take this one
unnerving racist bumper sticker
me at my desk at flash art
view from my window
navigli (the canals)
porta ticinese

mtv italia
george michael's 'shoot the dog' video (banned in the u.s. and u.k., but the hit of mtv italia): 1 2 3 4

kassel (july 02)
documenta is a huge contemporary art exhibition held every five years in kassel
kassel is like a giant art amusement park during documenta-jahr (documenta year)
you'll never believe what i ate
seriously!
at a german pub
antonia and laura and valentina
me and antonia
john bock's performance at documenta
(he delivered a lecture in german
while hanging upside-down in a hole)
dieter roth's 'large table ruin' -- 28 years of accumulated objects glued down in his studio (so many empty beer bottles!)
on kawara's 'one million years (past and future)' -- live reading recording every year from 998,031 B.C. to 1969 A.D.
ken lum's 'mirror maze with 12 signs of depression'
giuseppe gabellone's untitled work -- he laboriously constructs sculptures only to destroy them after taking one photograph
simparch's 'free basin' -- a plywood skate bowl modeled on a typical 1970s californian swimming pool
and underneath it's a noisescape -- you can hear the skateboarders rolling over your head
valentina
antonia
me
laura
adriana
valeria
jakob
georg
tammo -- three artists who do a project called transnational republic
tammo's hair
ragazzi
sign for thomas hirschhorn's bataille monument -- a public project in a kassel community
the car that took us there
a sculpture made of packing tape that is part of the bataille monument

frankfurt (july 02)
romerplatz -- the site of a famous block of 15th-century burghers' houses known as the romer
antonia, valeria, valentina, adriana, and laura (the italian girls i was traveling with)
le ragazze by the river main
antonia
public art
installation by olafur eliasson at the frankfurter kunstverein
installation by liam gillick on the ceiling of the kunstverein
an intervention at portikus (part of manifesta, the european biennial of contemporary art)
foosball table by revolutions on request in which a team of crucified jesuses plays against a team of hindu deities

marzipan heaven
figs
panini
teeth

centro sociale
inside bulk squat
niko
niko beholds his work
graffitti
more graffitti

farewell to brooklyn (july 02)
mark and matt and kristin
me and ivan
ivan and michael
me and sirin
sirin and ahmad and kristin
ahmad and me
me and katie
carl
kristin and me
rich and michael and ivan
me and michael
lena
lena and me
jeff
brina
brina and me
ashley and dan
me and agnieszka
boy band
lena and brina

2006 brooklyn, japan, charlottesville
2005 india, thailand, hong kong, macau, venice, london, skaneateles
2004 saas fee, reykjavik, brooklyn, milan, skaneateles
2003 brooklyn, parma, milano, torino, lago di garda, madrid, berlin, lago maggiore, capalbio, venezia, prague, london, genoa, lugano, istanbul
2002 brooklyn, frankfurt, kassel, milano, venezia, paris, torino, amsterdam, bologna, grazie, mantova