LOWER EAST SIDE

LOVERS LOCKS.

Capturing an image of this phenomenon on Brooklyn Bridge I did some research and found that the tradition had its roots buried in a romance novel based in Rome. In the story, the two lovers, looking out over the vista from a bridge, took a lock and locked it to the rails of the bridge as a symbol of the strength of their love and commitment to each other, they then threw the key for the lock into the waters below as a testimony to their future. This became a popular icon of romance among, mostly, the Italian youth of NYC.

Rain Forest

Mulch

When my brother and i were kids, our dad used to read us a book, called ‘Peter and the Plaguey Blight”, that I remembered as being about murky, mossy forest spirits. When I traveled through this forest I felt like a had fallen into the pages…