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A SQUARE WIND
CALLING

First visit to Cypress Hills Cemetery Brooklyn - New York City. Visiting Piet Mondrian's gravestone. - Wind howls towards the end of day. Hurry Hurry. The lady at the entrance welcomes me with plastic bouquets. Mondrian and Figurative Flowers. A problematic duo. If she knows where I can find him? She hands out a map. With notable corpses. Maybe he's on there. She isn't so sure. Kids from the neighborhood are gathering around the grave of a young man. Smoking grass. Furtherdown the path a Mexican family is drinking beers, litting candles. From the back of the car salsa notes are coming my way.

Some sketches made for video work commemorating his geometric legacy.
Presentation in Summer 2012.

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View on Manhattan, from my hotel room: Broadway Boogie Woogie - videostill.

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View on Manhattan, from my hotel room: Broadway Boogie Woogie - videostill.

Piet Mondrian's painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie is made up of a number of shimmering squares of bright color that leap from the canvas, then appear to shimmer, drawing the viewer into the neon lights of his new hometown: Manhattan. While Mondrian's works of the 1920s and 1930s tend to have an almost scientific austerity about them, these New York paintings are bright, lively, reflecting the upbeat music that inspired them and the city in which they were made.

Cypress Hill Cemetery is located next to the J train, Brooklyn.

Piet Mondriaan's gravestone, 2011 - Video Still