Mosque on the water on the Asian side of Istanbul, looking out at the Bosphorus

A tour boat loading passengers for Kiz Kulesi (princess island) in the middle of the Bosphorus. The view is from the Uskudar neighborhood on the Asian side.

Brunch in Istanbul with my brother and the his friend Izzy

some mosque

 

some other mosque

Galata Tower, all is Istanbul

The crowd at the bar at JFK terminal 7 prior to departure of Turkish Airlines Flight #1 to Istanbul. Off to vacation!

Goodbye Whitney museum. From my pocket sketchbook.

Copy of a Rembrandt landscape. Don't know why.

 preliminary storyboard ideas for a production of Nutcracker at Interlochen Center for the arts in 2015. What's tricky about this production is that they have a 72' wide proscenium and NO FLY SPACE. All the scenery has to be sculptural units that move from the wings. How do you design a Nutcracker without any backdrops? I'm going to find out in the next month or so.

Playing around with double-sided arches for a production of 'nutcracker' in 2015. Early early days on this project 

Another copy from a collection of drawings by KF Schinkel

Waiting, sending texts, drawing strangers

as part of my research for a new production of Nutcracker for Interlochen Center for the Arts I've been looking at buildings by the early nineteenth century architect K.F. Shinkel. I copied this hunting lodge out of a book of his drawings. I don't know if it was ever constructed

Arcadia at the Yale Rep. Designed by Adrian Martinez Frausto. Directed by James Bundy

Arcadia at the Yale Rep. Designed by Adrian Martinez Frausto. Directed by James Bundy

illuminated manuscript pages from the Morgan Library. I didn't record the original artist. It was likely and unnamed monk.

Monika Grzymala's Volumen in the lobby of the Morgan Library a while ago. The security guard in the foreground stared at me the whole time i did this sketch.

 a church in Mystic, CT. I stayed near here while in tech at Connecticut College for a production of Detroit

the view from my seat on Metro North

the entrance to the City Museum in St. Louis, Mo. I was there for a wedding in June and managed to sneak away for an afternoon

museum sketchs from Allentown Museum of Art. Drawings by Francisco Goya. I did these while in town to tech an Othello for Allentown Shakespeare in the Park

sketches from a drawing in the Morgan Library

I love me some Noguchi. Another sketch from a museum visit a couple weeks ago

from a photographs, Louisiana in 1964. research for my design of 'Caroline, or Change'

my design for 'Detroit' at Connecticut College. We go into tech this week

something I copied out of a costume designer's research for something or other

showing a lighting designer what her striplights will look like mounted in the side of this scenic unit

 a ship onstage

 a ship on the ocean

first sketch-- trying to figure out how to put a ship onstage

this is what happens when you need to do props drawings on the train at midnight

in my defense: the Metro-North train was shaking a lot as I did these sketches. They were for a very forgiving technical director at Connecticut College who wanted more information on some props he was making. Rest assured he was eventually provided with dimensioned drawings.