Day 5.. The Other Side of the River… 12/24/21

December 24, 2021

Hope all is well and that you are enjoying the holidays – masked and safe.

We headed out and strolled through City Hall Park and onward to Union Square—to stroll the holiday market (and the usual green market). We grabbed some fresh pastries and hot cider and called it breakfast.

From there, we walked cross town on 15^th Street (about 1.3 miles) to Chelsea Market which was festive and fun. We grabbed a quick Pad Thai lunch and went to the Artechouse show, “Machine Hallucination,” located in the boiler room of the Market. It’s what the artist calls an “immersive” experience that uses tens of thousands of images of NY and supposedly interprets the city through the mind of a machine— giving the sense of the ever-changing shape and perception of NY. There is a mezzanine level and then the actual floor level (where you really have to sit on the floor to experience the moving lights and mesmerizing motion and sound).

We opted for the mezzanine for fear we might not be able to get up easily from floor sitting… but we did eventually go to the lower level as well. It’s a very fast-paced 45 minute technological and fractured color and black and white series that every so often reminds you of the thousands of images that create the abstractions. It’s “textured and always in motion in a total-surround so it feels as if the floor is moving and the walls are pulsating.

We’re off to Christmas Eve dinner at the Temple Court here at the Beekman in an hour or so… so I’m signing off to get ready. 

All the best –

Fern