Paying attention to ordinary life teaches us to look at humdrum and familiar objects with new and more alert eyes. This is the power of art: to both witness and celebrate the value of the ordinary. Starbucks, East 39th @ Park Avenue, New York City. December 2021.
The Dakota is an apartment building in the Upper West Side of Manhattan New York. Constructed between 1880 and 1884, The Dakota has historically been home to many artists, actors, and musicians, including John Lennon, who was murdered in the archway of the building in 1980.
Yoko Ono still maintains a residence. In 1972 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Construction was commissioned by Edward C. Clark, head of Singer & Company. December 2022.
John Lennon's “Imagine” was released in October 11, 1971. One of the most influential songs of the 20 century, John reminds us of the injustice and inequality in the world and asks us to “imagine” and picture a world with “no need for greed or hunger.” A world where there is peace and acceptance of everyone.
The “Imagine” mosaic is located in “Strawberry Fields”, Central Park, NYC. The design is based on a Greco-Roman design created by Italian craftsmen and donated by the city of Naples. December 2021.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a Beatles song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Lennon based the song on his childhood memories of playing in the garden of “Strawberry Field”, a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool. After his murder, Yoko scattered John’s ashes in a 2.5 acre section of New York's Central Park that was named after the song. Strawberry Fields is located across from the Dakota, John and Yoko’s home. December 2021.
New York City. Radio City Music Hall opened on December 27, 1932, as part of the Rockefeller Center.
The south façade features three large Art Deco roundels depicting Dance, Drama, and Song.
The 18ft diameter mixed metal and enamel roundels were designed by New York native artist and designer . . .
. . . Hildreth Meière, with metalwork by Oscar B. Bach.
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York was consecrated in October 1910. It is the largest Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral in the US and measures 332 feet long, with a maximum width of 174 feet at the transepts and seats 2,400 people.
Located in Midtown Manhattan, The Cathedral has 21 altars and 19 bells, and eight Archbishops of New York are buried in a crypt under the high altar.
A tourist sees what they’ve come to see . . . the photographer explores to see things new.
Rockefeller Center, New York City.
One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center. It is the tallest building in the US and Western Hemisphere and the seventh-tallest in the world.
“Icons, New & Old”, Lower Manhattan. Architecture speaks of its time and place and yearns for agelessness. (Frank Gehry).
