Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 5)
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*Please consider going paid. I’d really appreciate it :) Chapter 5 Two major developments occurred in mid-June: I moved to a second Air BnB, in Hamilton Heights, on the west side; and I met Sophia Motte. Sophia was an artist who hailed from Pittsburgh, PA (quite common in NYC I discovered) and had lived in Manhattan for about twenty years. She’d had an eccentric, theatre-actor mother (who Sophia, as a child, once walked in on after a suicide attempt with pills), and an angry, alcoholic father who’d died long ago, when she was in her lurid, alcoholic twenties. She’d initially been a corporate architect (she’d gone to architecture school at Pratt) but had always had a passion for painting. Over the years she began dipping her toe into the artists’ world in New York, working at and attending art galleries; painting on her free time; and eventually getting her MFA in painting from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, on 8th Street in Greenwich Village.
Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 5)
Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's…
Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 5)
*Please consider going paid. I’d really appreciate it :) Chapter 5 Two major developments occurred in mid-June: I moved to a second Air BnB, in Hamilton Heights, on the west side; and I met Sophia Motte. Sophia was an artist who hailed from Pittsburgh, PA (quite common in NYC I discovered) and had lived in Manhattan for about twenty years. She’d had an eccentric, theatre-actor mother (who Sophia, as a child, once walked in on after a suicide attempt with pills), and an angry, alcoholic father who’d died long ago, when she was in her lurid, alcoholic twenties. She’d initially been a corporate architect (she’d gone to architecture school at Pratt) but had always had a passion for painting. Over the years she began dipping her toe into the artists’ world in New York, working at and attending art galleries; painting on her free time; and eventually getting her MFA in painting from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, on 8th Street in Greenwich Village.