Coffee and I

I leave the house most mornings to drink my coffee in public at a local cafe. I construct my day there; drawing, writing, reading.

As I have gotten older, my consumption of coffee has diminished to twenty ounces, consumed at one sitting, in the morning. I carry an Ecomug to avoid drinking out of disposable cups; drinking from a permanent cup makes the ritual better, carrying the cup with me makes it worse. Twenty ounces in such a container spans one and a half cups. Sometimes I do without the half cup and my day suffers as a consequence.

Often the drawing and writing I do, as I drink my coffee, gives a structure to my day as an architect; working out solutions to my design problems of the day before, to be instituted when I get back to my office;  it is not practical problem solving, but a process of altering the context surrounding the issue to construct a world in which the problem is not one.

I have collected a body of this thinking into a series of panels which will be hung in the cafe where I drink my coffee. The panels represent an architecture planned in total, constructed over time to accommodate many cycles of human living. The panels reside in a world which accepts the progress of events, but seeks to establish a place which does not need to be replaced in order to accommodate. The panels will be hung at Collegtown Bagels at the corner of Aurora and Seneca Streets in Ithaca during the month of August. The opening of the show is Friday 6 August at 5PM.