The Globe Project

In 2006, during my last year living in New York City, I was working on a collaborative art project in which I made use of an old globe I found discarded on a curb in the East Village. The project was shot on film, and after wrapping the shoot, I was faced with a deadline to get the negatives processed. Realizing I had half a dozen shots left on the roll, and not wanting to waste them, I started for the film processing shop with my camera and the globe in hand, figuring I would get some spontaneous street portraits from people I met along the way. It was so much fun that after dropping off the project rolls, I grabbed more film and headed out again, wandering the streets and various neighborhoods of the city, from the East Village to Times Square. The resulting gallery would become, in many ways, the inspiration and precursor to The NOLA Flag Project a few years later. But in a simpler way, I know now that it may have been my love letter to the city I had spent a decade of my life.