Hi there. How are you? It’s been awhile.

It continues to snow and snow and snow in Berlin. But I don’t mind because in a couple of weeks I am leaving Berlin for three months to do my residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. I am looking forward to this time so much and I can’t wait to share the pictures with you, write about what I find, make new work and meet new people.

I’ll be posting everything over at the new blog, The Field Office. So if you want to follow along, here’s how:

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Thanks and I look forward to seeing you there!

that SenseOfPlace.de has moved to the field office!

And I’m currently posting from Egypt, so don’t forget to change your subscriptions. Thanks! and I hope to see you over there.

Hello readers!

SenseOfPlace.de has moved to the field office. The boxes aren’t quite unpacked but I wanted to invite you to update your subscriptions and feeds because from here on out I’ll be posting my finds from that location.

Not too much has changed but there are a couple of new departments including Berlin and Travel, where photos and posts will be grouped accordingly.

If you have an email subscription, please update it here.

One last thing—there is good reason to follow me because starting Friday I’ll be posting (I hope) from a far-off foreign office.

See you there!

If you parked like this in just about any American city you would guarantee yourself a parking ticket—if not a tow—in about five minutes. Here no one even notices.

Still recuperating (and eating leftovers) after our Saturday Thanksgiving dinner, which ended at 5am. The table decorations were not my doing.

I loved Elizabeth’s link the other day to this website, a collection of vintage dollhouses and dollhouse accessories.

As a kid I loved my dollhouse. I spent countless hours playing in that imaginary place.

Also, I thought it was great that this was a German web site. Germans have a delightful affection for all things miniature. Kleingärten and the Miniatur Wunderland Museum being some of my favorites.

When we left the apartment at 4 this afternoon the sun had already set and turned the sky pink which had, in turn, stained all of the buildings pink. It was pretty spectacular—people were stopped on the sidewalk and in the streets, just staring at the sky and buildings.

We were on our way to Si An Tra for a little Sunday afternoon coffee and cake. But by the time we got there and sat ourselves outside under the lanterns (it was another mild day), we ended up eating our treats in the dark.

I don’t usually participate in the German Sunday-afternoon-coffee-and-cake business— I’m not a big dessert fan. But the Vietnamese desserts at this little tea room could convert me.

Si An Tra
sian-berlin.de

Mild, sunny weather? Get it while it lasts.

I don’t make a practice of taking photos in graveyards, but today the light was beautiful and the place intriguing. The graveyard is close to my apartment, between two loud and busy streets, but it is so huge and so overgrown that it feels completely removed from its surroundings. I found tiny footpaths through tall grass, fallen trees crushing toppled gravestones and, of course, a cat.

Winskietz, Bötzowviertel and Volkspark Friedrichshain.

Today I was on my way to do a dumb errand and walked by our neighborhood flower shop. There is no way to ever resist this place, so I bought one of those little dusty pink plants that everyone has outside at this time of the year. It almost looks like a Norfolk Island Pine with pink (or white or purple) flowers. I wish I knew the name…?

If you couldn’t see the last post due to my ill-informed tinkering on the backend, please *try again*.

Today was sunny and warm. We went out for half the day and just walked. We weren’t anywhere touristy, but I took pictures from beginning to end as a little sampling of the city.

Restaurant Schoenbrunn
Volkspark Friedrichshain

I was in history class twenty years ago today, when our teacher told us what was happening at that very moment in Berlin. He wheeled in a t.v. and we watched the fall of the Berlin Wall as our lesson for the day.

I had no idea at the time that I would ever find myself living in that city, twenty years in the future. But here I am. Today I went to the Deutsche Guggenheim to see Julie Mehretu’s work for the second time (I also attended the talk she gave in the gallery just after the show opened—photo below).

The main piece I show here is called Berliner Plätze. It is gorgeous and if you are in Berlin between now and early January I highly recommend seeing it in person.