Snow in Manhattan.

A few days ago all news station started predicting this. Every channel would show the map with arrows towards NY. Regular broadcast was often interrupted by sadden announcements. No, I am not talking about possible terrorist attack (God Forbid) and NOT about Tiger Wood mistress #122. Not about health reform (which honestly is quite boring).

SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

The force of nature, snow storm was coming...

The excitement of upcoming snow storm was overwhelming!!

But it still came kind of suddenly and out of nowhere….Well, it usually comes out of nowhere.

Simply because SNOW is just another state and form of water-and water is everywhere and nowhere.

I found definitions of snow very intriguing.

SNOW by http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/snow

Noun

1.	Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.

2.	these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.

3

the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall Here is another interesting definition by http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Snow SNOW-n.

:

1. Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes. 2. A falling of snow; a snowstorm. 3. Something resembling snow, as: a. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception. b. Slang Cocaine. c. Slang Heroin. I sat on the floor beside the glass terrace door with my morning cup of coffee and observed the incredible transformation-sugary muffing heads on everything- a result of last night snow falling over Manhattan. and while looking through the window at the objects snow created out of pots and outside furniture made me think how much as a water sign I must be relevant to the state of water: sometimes foggy, steamy, raining, pouring, puddle uncomfortable; and sometimes: strikingly/powdery/sugary/sparkly/fluffy substance, that makes absolutely everything beautiful at least for a little while….SNOW! P.S. I cooked (photos above)hearty beans soup and meat with barley-that's the must food this moment!!

Structural Catabolism by Eric P. Laverty

Has it ever come to your attention, that buildings that are abandoned or being out of use for years, might have secrets of their own???
Buildings of the past are meaningful for us as witnesses of life that passed them by and gone into history books. Those buildings used to be destroyed to give way for new ones (not necessarily well esthetically define ones).
It happened a lot; in fact it happened way too often in the USA.
It’s time to recognize that there’s a significance of the old structures of New World. It’s time to see the beauty of them, and it’s time to transform old structures in order to save not only what seems to be bunch of bricks, but ourselves from the ignorance and numbness of our souls…
Eric P. Laverty is ONE big believer of savers of old buildings,to the extent that he invented a new term- Structural Catabolism...
Eric spent hours, which in total could be enough for space voyage in observing old buildings with his camera.
He made thousands of photographs, hours and hours in communication with something some people never notice, in order for us to see their hidden charm.
Eric’s photographs are history that gone through his artistic heart, and like projector in the dark night hit the clouds and shows us the images of new beginning. To see the possible future - bright future in incorporating old decaying walls into our life.


Please come see Eric P. Laverty solo exhibition at DLG Gallery:
143 West 29th street 7th floor, New York, NY 10001
The reception for the artist to be held at DLG Gallery on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – 6-9pm.
please visit artist web site: www.lavertystudio.com