Room 9a – The Carlton Arms Hotel, New York
I spent March 2016 as one of nine artists in residence at the Carlton Arms Hotel, staying in New York for free in return for painting a room. The Carlton Arms is one of very few remaining relics of old New York, a leftover from the days of artists, punks, crazies and weirdos. It’s special and wonderful and there’s nowhere like it. As the Carlton Arms T-shirt says: it’s the hotel you’ll never forget. Here are some photos of my visit and of 9a, the room I painted.
Fog of ideas
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- The door to room 9a
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- Before starting
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- Before starting
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- Thinking ‘what on earth am I going to do?’
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- Five adventurers appear out of nowhere – or my subconscious
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- There’s a wood up ahead
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- Fog of ideas
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- Trapped in a picture
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- Trapped in a sea
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- Skeletons in the closet
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- Entering the bathroom
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- Falling
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- A useful man
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- Chino cleans the windows before the opening
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- Hidden signature
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- Finished!
