Scott joined me for the third Yomico installment in Brooklyn. We did the usual overnight at DFW and early flight to La Guardia, then an Uber straight to Yomico’s. (I’d given up on renting a car, having suffered the slings and arrows of alternate-day street parking and gashed a rental on a missed ball-hitch on the prior visit. Tip for the traveler: those credit-card auto insurance freebies actually work!)
This visit offered Yomico at perhaps his finest moments of the project: the all-important, giant octopus section was on deck, and he didn’t disappoint!
The reference image he’d selected was terrific—a textured, aggressive octopus whose tentacles would engage with the shark and add a great deal of action and movement. I’d been waiting for this part impatiently; during a long-awaited, end-of-the year SCUBA trip to Indonesia with Josh, a multitude of shirtless expositions about “an octopus is going to go here“ would finally be no longer necessary!
He got quite a bit done the first session. The cephalopod was looking like a great centerpiece.
First day was in the books.
Scott and I had a nice, late-night Asian DoorDash meal. Even a midnight rum delivery was achieved: another triumph for The Big Apple! (Can’t ever hope to score something like that in New Mexico,)
Then, next morning, even more success: a real New York deli breakfast! I had a bagel with lox, capers and hummus. First vertebrate I’d eaten in twenty years, and the buildup didn‘t disappoint.
We started off the second day with a visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In almost any other city this would be a showcase destination; but in NYC it’s buried in the pack. We saw an impressive and varied show by artist, architect and designer Virgil Abloh. The other collections, temporary and permanent, were at least as interesting.
After a nice tour we headed to Yomico’s for the second day of the session. He completed the Octopus and everyone in the studio was blown away with the completed section.
Yomico 3.0 was a wrap!
