~The Practice Of Attaching Cups To The Ends Of String Came Much Later. Some Say It Is Related To The

~…The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America.~  - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

East River Ferry - nyc, July 2013

~at the Met~

The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts

nyc, July 2013

~on a summer afternoon~

~droplets, July 2013~