Art, Floating on the Hudson

Photograph: Michael Nagle, NYT ©

Well, I know I've attended some terrific concerts on this Brooklyn barge, and that several of my friends lived on barges on the Amstel, but this new adventure by two female artists--living full-time on a work-in-progress barge in New York City's harbour, is compelling and apparently complicated.

It is not always about Wagner

Parsifal is among the most listened to and recognizable operas in the Wagner pantheon--but when I think of Parsifal it isn't the opera but the adventure to seek the Holy Grail.

In some ways trying to find the perfect pen and/or the perfect journal could be compared to the Grail search especially if one wants the perfect trio: pen, journal and ink.

I'm not certain perfection exists, but trying is the adventure.