Prospect Heights artist Bill Batson writes: “I use the word ‘noir’ to express the drama and mystery that comes with spending so much of our time in public spaces sitting next to total strangers … on hard surfaces, often staring blankly ahead, framed by advertising, years of our life are spent in this anonymous travel mode … as the world becomes more digital, people on opposite sides of the globe have more contact with each other than we do with our seat neighbors. What will it take to eliminate barrier of alienation that is the line between random strangers and a community?” [Read more after the break…]

Subway Noir: Drawings by Bill Batson
June 26, 2005 - August 7, 2005
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 26, 2005; 4-7 p.m.
Calabar Imports, 820 Washington Ave. btw Lincoln and St. John’s Pl.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
RSVP: info@calabar-imports.com | 718-638-4288
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Thanks to Tina Laze for contributing these photos to Daily Heights:

“Taken at the Cherry Blossom Festival last month. No story, really, other than pure enjoyment of a beatiful day. It was the last few hours of the festival, and one of my friends thought it’d be nice to just lay out on the grass. And who could resist a cartwheel given those circumstances?”