NEW YORK
AND ADJACENT CANADA

A photographic installation by Robyn York

November 11—30, 2009
Reception: November 20, 6–9pm

Visual Studies Workshop, Print Loft Gallery
SUNY Brockport Student Gallery
421 University Avenue
Rochester, NY

hours by appointment
tel: 585-967-1666 
email: robyn@robynyork.com

#11 – Michael Feldman on overcast Sundays
#12 – Friends’ house parties I can walk to
#13 – El Ten Eleven at Bug Jar (I have now seen them more times at the Bug Jar than Casiotone for the Painfully Alone)
#14 – Danny, Richie, Bobby, Glenn and the Jukebox at Abilene
#15 – My messy apartment around 3pm when the light looks nice.

(someone else likes maps….)

#10. a) Croquet shows

b) at the German House

Camera Obscura poster from Snore & Guzzle dot com

#5. Wegmans on Sundays at midnight, when the floor cleaning guy has fenced off the areas of the store I never go in anyway.

#6. Freak weather days, when it jumps from 5 to 18 degrees Celsius. And everyone drags their shorts out of the closet for one more day of ’summer’.

#7. Driving down Park (between Colby & Oxford) at midnight, when there are no d-bags out criss-crossing the street like they have never seen a car.

#8. Overhearing someone giggling to NPR while they make art in another room at school.

#9. Going to see a middle-age popular performer and seeing the handful of hipsterkids scattered throughout the sea of polar fleece and marathon t-shirts who still think they need to look cool for a concert.

#4 The way the lights at University & Prince street look when they alternate red/yellow after midnight.
(Time lapse video once final project is done)

#2. Whistling in the stairwell at 31 Prince street.

#3. Kim at South Wedge diner

In sixty days, I’ll be back in my home & native land (“arrhomeanatiflaaaaand” -robyn singing O Canada, c. 1986) and there is a lot of stuff this stuffmaker is gonna miss about my adopted home in upstate (or western, depending on your audience) NY.

Number one, in no particular order:

The news from Lake Wobegon with second pot of coffee, staring at my computer screen and watching peripheral Oxford street from my second story window.

i heart this place - found on some wall, somewhere i should have noted instead of just snapping a mobile phone shitty pic of it on May 29, 09

Will try to keep the countdown rolling. We’ll see.

I really hope I see some of these costumes tonight…

And yes, I realize it is not a coincidence that NBC throws together something with at least 5 costume choices two days before Halloween. That’s just good marketing, yeah?

To all my fellow Gin Blossom fans.

Title credit: see video.

While drinking my morning coffee & trying to figure out how to fix my Realistic MTA-8 radio (which cost $2.99 at a goodwill) so I can listen to public radio… I came across goodwill’s online store. Yikes. Bookmark & close. Bookmark & close. Bookmark & close.

Lyrics: Bishop Allen, Queen of the Rummage Sale