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The small oil painting on panel above is the third in a new series I've been working on about NYC food carts at night. Although I was pretty whipped from long days in the hectic city, I headed out with my stepladder (for a better point of view) on the subways and streets until way past midnight during a hot week this June. This scene and the one below were some of many that made it worth the effort. After capturing the activity in the painting below, I walked from there to the jammed-to-the-walls throng and general madness in the blocks around Times Square, where even heavily armed security forces ignored me while I was perched on a ladder on the sidewalk, or after climbing on a trash bin when I couldn't deploy the ladder: photographing, waiting and photographing to capture as many people and their interactions as I could for reference when I'm three thousand miles away in Portland trying to paint about it.