Post Passeggiata report. A July night on Van Brunt Street—indoors.

Well, It was 103 degrees outside. And instead of walking, we sat on our buts, and looked at the cool, copper-penny skins that Andrew Coates made (by melting the zinc out of actual pennies) and drank a LOT of wine courtesy of Fosco, who, I must say, has a great palate. Reds and whites from La Marche, and Sardegna, and a bubbly Lambrusco…

In attendance were such stellar artists as Lori Ellison

Lori Ellison's Green Hatches

and Lawrence Swan
and Jim Osman
and Eric Cherry (of the 1st “Passeggiata“), and restlus.com’s Kurt Strahm, and Ellen Letcher

Ellen Letcher composite media piece

and Kevin Regan of “Famous Accountants” (yay, Bushwick!)

all rights reserved. by Kevin Regan "John Hinkley Craft Project."

As for me, I’ve more than a bit of a hangover, sitting in a deli sucking down coffee and trying to decide whether to get an Advil. Heck, it’s only 98 degrees out! *sigh*

I’m not done with La Passeggiata. Just resting; feeling sort of content that new art now hangs on walls thanks, in part, to the fact that I took a walk and people read about it.
But the real praise goes all who came out (I neglected to mention too many) and to Alessandro and Francesca.

No Advil for me, after all. But, hey, a bearded man just walked into the deli wearing a kilt. So life is good.
Even when you don’t walk far, interesting things come to You.