About me

 

On the 20th of May 2009, I moved to the city of Nottingham in Great Britain. 

I was born in New York, New York, in the seventies. My parents were not hippies but they have exhibited some unusual, often stylistic, after effects of that period. So there’s been a lot of crazy decor (lots of orange/yellow and pink hues) in my past and a lot of laid-back parenting. That is, they did not encourage me to become an accountant or a lawyer or a medical doctor or anything practical. And, sometimes I wish they had. But, they believed in following one’s heart and taking chances. So, I’m here now.

Some people here in Notts have asked me, “Why would you ever leave New York?!” Indeed, New York is one of the definitions of humanity’s greatness. There’s the cliché that, “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.” And to attest to this spirit, I even managed to receive a doctorate in a humanities field from a University in New York in 2006. So, I am ready to test this theory here in the UK. And, yes, and write up a storm about my subject of research.

Oh, and we also moved here because my husband was offered a terrific job. It was close enough to a description of his dreamjob (as much as work 60+ hours a week could be a fantasy) that I thought we had to take a chance and move to Nottingham, or “Notts.” 

Yes. This is the notorious home of Robin Hood. Although there appear to be many merry men and women about town, my forays to the suburb of Sherwood have been limited to pilates classes where people sometimes snicker to express their exasperation about yet another complex movement. There is a great oak somewhere here that I need to find. There are a LOT of caves. There’s one that travels from under our apartment building to the “park,” which is, of course, a suburb. There are also pubs in caves.

I like tacos, contemporary art, Science Fiction and Britain’s Next Top Model.

The masthead of this blog is a close-up of a photograph I took of Guerra de la Paz’s Nine (2007) on view in the Saatchi Gallery in London. The work is featured in the Abstract America exhibition through January 2010. Guerra de la Paz is composed of two Cuban-American artists, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. This work features a large mountain of charity-bundle clothing with nine sets of legs emerging below.

-Kris in Notts