This is the industrial park section of Greenpoint. It’s busy during the week, but it was deserted on the weekends when I was painting.

I made up this painting. It was meant to look like a romantic pastoral scene, but somehow it ended up looking more like a primordial swamp. Part of the problem was that the wall was extremely rough. Even after I spent several days gessoing and sanding my oval, I still had trouble painting the detail. As a result, all my foliage ended up being inappropriately large and menacing.

I left my cell phone here and couldn’t find it when I came back the next day. I tried calling it and a woman answered. When I asked her to give the phone back, she laughed and said, “Yeah, right!”

The painting was still there when I last drove by.