Sitting out on the fire escape
A Snapshot
Fall in New York is sitting out on the fire escape with a glass of wine, cigarettes and friends.
There’s Rusty with his friends Melissa and Kevin. We’d just come back from a walk down Broadway. The sky is turning a shade of cool dusk. We talk about politics, housing prices and Tibetan mastiffs. Below us there are two women talking. The gallery they just walked out of is spectacular, one says. It is. Rusty and I poked in for a look this morning. One of the sculptures is a long piece of thick bark inlay with pearl and black stone, stretching almost 50m long.