Une Envie de Sel

On one of our last days in the city, we took the ferry to Governor's Island to visit a series of artists installations that had taken up residence in some of the long-abandoned staff housing there.

What artist could resist the allure of empty rooms to reimagine at will...the blank slate of a house, without codes or regulations, without even the strictures of practicality to worry about.

Though the ferry seemed quite crowded, the island is spacious enough to absorb sizeable crowds, and it felt like we had the empty houses and their installations nearly to ourselves...which is, I have to say, my favorite way to experience contemporary art.

The amorphous, mirrored mosaics were Q's favorite, and how could they not be? Pure magic.

So enchanting a setting for a little girl that, if I could find the time, I would populate our house with mirrored mosaics.

I love the juxtaposition with the peeling peeling plaster of the ceilings and stairwells.

 

 

Such a pleasure to roam without crowds or museum guards, a place in which the imagination can quite literally run wild. I love it.