She came to clean the house]]> Charlie came to work. He usually works on Mondays and Fridays but for various reasons, at various times, the date gets changed. That week, he came on Saturday because Cathy's birthday was the day before (I'm assuming).]]> Charlie came to work]]> These two guys came to pick up Catherine's (Murphy) new diptych, Shift, and also the painting Flatscreen, to bring to the Peter Freeman Gallery, NYC. They wrote their names down on the back of the receipt, which I can't find. They work for Pocahontas and Zarathustra, an art moving company in Brooklyn, NY.]]> Darrell delivered presents from Cathy's (Murphy) sister Betty (Keddy). He seems to be our regular FedEx man for now, and is very likeable.]]> The man who delivered the Fuel oil this morning from Bottini rang the bell to tell me that my car door was wide open and thus had been open all night.]]> He came to work]]> I'll have to call Ben to see why he came by.]]> Tim stopped by to visit and have a cup of coffee and look over a couple of things.]]> She came to clean the house]]> Charlie did some of his regular chores. Then he and I went off to Eugene Carrol's house to take care of some business (see groups, Euguen Caroll's House, 2017/01/07). After lunch we are now working on this site.]]> Ben and I mostly worked on this website. See same photograph at beginning of 2019]]> Simon got here at 11:00am instead of 10:00 becauser he overslept, which was fine since I had much to do this morning anyway before he got here. I didn't get up until 8:30am (which is very unusual for me), because I didn't get home from the hospital until after 2:30am (see Visitors, same date, Peter Charlap, and EMT Crew (the 25th). Also see Visitors, Christmas Dinner (the 24th). Simon helped me finish cleaning up from dinner last night and he discarded the basket full of bloody paper towels, and my blood drenched slippers. He also recorded some phone messages off the phone. Now we are writing this.]]> When I was released from the hospital (see Visitors, EMT Crew, December 25, 2018). It turned out I had no way to get home. I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, so I didn't have a car and because it was Christmas Eve, none of the taxi companies were answering their phone. I called Mark Briscoe because he lives fairly close to the hospital. He did call me back, but was out in the Hamptons. I kept watching people coming and going and contemplated asking strangers to drive me home, but i didn't think that was going to work. I toyed with the idea of just spending the night in the waiting room, which wasn't all that attractive. So I gave in and called Peter Charlap. He and Shawn came in about a half hour (about 2am) to pick me up and take me home.]]> We had Tom Nozkowski, Joyce Robins, Kazimir Nozkowski, Hanna Boz, Rocket Nozkowski and Judy Linn for Christmas Dinner (see last entry). After cleaning up for a few hours, I went up to bed and after getting ready I got into bed and noticed there was quite a bit of blood on the sheets, then I looked around and saw a good size puddle of blood on the floor next to the bed and figured that maybe something happened to the cat. Cathy (Murphy) said she doubted it was the cat because she had just seen her, the blood seemed to keep coming and I did realize it was coming from me. My ankle was bleeding profusely. I tried tissues and then paper towels to stop the bleeding, but it was pouring out pretty fast. In the bathroom I sat on the toilet and held some drenched paper towels against my ankle, while Cathy tried to unwrap a very old bandaid from the medicine cabinet. I told her that she should probably call 911. Cathy went downstairs to meet the EMTs at the kitchen door. They got to the house pretty fast, probably within 15 minutes. At one point there were 5 EMT people up in the bathroom with me and 4 or 5 more at the foot of the stairs. They established that I wasn't dizzy or nauseous or feeling faint. Laura (I think that was her name) washed off the area sprayed some saline on the puncture and the blood starting flowing again. She wrapped a bandage tightly around my ankle, Laura also took down some information, my name, what medicines I took, etc. Before going downstairs, I went into the bedroom so I could change my t-shirt which had paint on it. Downstairs I asked if someone could get the book I was reading (My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgård), my glasses, my insurance card, and a credit card. I couldn't find my liscence, but it didn't seem to be important, because of all the other stuff I had. Out in the driveway were 4 or 5 cars and 2 ambulances. I was escorted into one of the ambulances and as we headed out to the hospital, they took my vital signs and checked the wound. In the emergency room at Vassar Brothers Hospital, I was looked at fairly quickly by two doctors. In the end, they glued the wound (not much more than a small puncture) with Durabond. When I was released I had trouble finding a way home. I eventually called Peter Charlap, see last entry. When I got home Cathy had cleaned up the blood from the bedroom and the bathroom.]]> Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.]]> Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.]]> Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.]]> Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.]]> The man from Fedex delivered one of the presents that Cathy ordered me for Christmas.]]> Jeff delivered 3 new stretchers for Catherine's (Murphy) paintings.]]> We spent most of the day putting up the Christmas tree.]]> I had called Tim and asked him if he could come over and help us put up the giant wreath on the barn (my studio).]]> Peter came over to pick up a powerpoint presentation I put together on Rene Huererra's Senior Project work. There was a department meeting that afternoon and Peter was going to talk about Rene's work because I couldn't go to the meeting.]]> The guy from Adams delivered our Christmas tree and wreath.]]> After his usual morning chores Simon worked with Cathy ordering some things online for me for Christmas. After lunch Simon and I worked on the book of Cathy's (Murphy) Working Drawings, that I am putting together for her for Christmas.]]> Micky and Gabrielle met us at our house, then we headed out to Miso in Hyde Park for dinner (see entry same date: Groups, Miso Japanese Restaurant.)]]> In the afternoon I went to school for a going away party for Joanna DePasquale who is changing jobs. Then I got to the Art Department meeting about half way through.]]> We worked on the book of Catherine's working drawing for a Christmas present.]]> November 30 - December 1 --------- Friday morning Benjamin went to Davis and Langdale to pick up the works of mine that they had in the gallery. They are closing, probably at the end of December. He came up here with the work. We had lunch and then Ben and I went to the Hessel Museum at Bard to see The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004). Cathy (Murphy) was supposed to com with us but she had a terrible chest cold so stayed home. My responses to the exhibition were somewhat complicated. It was the kind of exhibit one is supposed to like. It had historical Importance, some very good artists and was the result of two gallery dealers that were willing to put out difficult work. But, from the first few minutes in the museum the exhibition put me in a bad mood. It felt too much like a research project, like the study of history. This was, in my viewpoint a result of the exhibition itself and some of the work. Too many long explicative wall labels. Though the labels were needed. I could have been interested in much of the work in the show if there wasn't so much of it. There was something relentless about the exhibition. Much of the work seemed pedantic to me. I lost patience. ----- Ben and I next went to Rhinebeck to get a birthday present for Helen Lang . I bought two Yotam Ottolenghi cookbooks, Plenty and Plenty more.nWe had about an hour after we got back to the house before we had to leave for the Formosa restaurant for Helen's Birthday dinner. Cathy was hoping that staying home all day would help her feel better for dinner. It didn't but she went anyway(see in Groups, Formosa restaurant, November 30, 2018). The next day Ben did more work for us. He photographed and enlarged some pages from John Yau's book on Thomas Nozkowski. Cathy is reading from the book at a tribute to John Yau at Poets House this coming Saturday. Except for meals Ben and I worked on my book, Haircuts, Self Portraits, 1988-2018. I am designing it in InDesign, a program that Ben knows much better than I do.]]> Tim came over to re-measure the last sculpture we made (Angled) so that we get the measurements correct for the one we are about to start (Tipped). He also had to re-show me how to put the brace on Angled so it wouldn't warp.]]> Simon got here a bit later than usual, because I asked him to pick up a maintenance cartridge for my printer. It turned out we had to order it online, which we just did about 30 seconds ago. After doing his usual chores, we set up my laptop and worked on uploading images from my camera and my phone. As well as uploading a small amount of recorded messages from my phone. By that time it was lunch time. We are now back entering data on the chronicle site.]]> Marge came with her crew to clean all the windows in the house and in the cottage, and the outside of Alec's apartment. Marge who I think now is the owner of AAAA Robert Walker still keeps it's original name. They also cleaned out all the gutters on the house and on my studio building. Rodney got here much later than the rest of the crew. As always they did a terrific job.]]> On September 13, I received an email from Tyler Flatt. In the email he told me that he works for Tiffany's and manages the artwork program. He said that they were interested in the possibility of buying some work from me and/or commissioning a new work for either their upcoming stores in Hong Kong and/or Beijing. Included in his email were images of some of my folded plywood sculptures as well as a plywood drawing on linen. We had arranged for him to do a studio visit. That morning I picked him up at the train station and brought him to our house. We had coffee and pastries, before looking at the work in the studios. The visit went well, as far as i could tell. At the end of the visit he said he needed to discuss the work with executives from the company. He had an uber car pick him up so he could go directly from here to a new store they had just opened in White Plains, NY.]]> Simon stopped on his way over at the supermarket to get some waters. Then he did his regular stuff. We spent the morning in Cathy's (Murphy) studio figuring out sizes for new paintings and helping her set up for a new drawing ( slippers in a box ). Then we had lunch and now we are sitting in front of you.]]> After he did his regular stuff, Simon and I went over to school to make a box for Cathy's (Murphy) new drawing. While Simon was finishing the box I went off to Adam's Fairacre Farms to do some shopping. We ate lunch soon after returning (we had gotten sandwiches at Adams.) And then Simon shoveled a path up to Cathy's studio.]]> Maria had gotten home from vacation on Thursday. She got to JFK at 6 o'clock and didn't get home until 12 midnight, because of the bad snow storm we had that evening. She had gone to Aruba for a couple of weeks. She was very tan and said she had a terrific time.]]> Simon did a number of things that day, he ( and Darren) moved the table from the patio into the garage. He vacuumed in my Dutch Barn Studio because I thought i was expecting business company the next day, but it turned out to be the next week. He also used the leaf blower to blow the leaves off the patio. There was some other stuff, but I can't remember at this point what they might have been.]]>