Twenty years ago I moved my studio out of my Brooklyn apartment to Long Island City. I built the first studio out of raw space.

Fifteen years later, the studios expanded and I built a new workspace and moved 15 feet west. At that time I scrambled to get the second space ready for a studio visit with Tod Lippy of Esopus Magazine. When he asked me to contribute to #23, it became the first project of studio #2.

The last finished project at 10-16 46th Ave was “Purgatorio.” As is the way of NYC, only five years after making the second space, all the tenants had to go to make room for something new.