I was doing some research at the New York Public Library’s main reference branch yesterday, and when I left the library and crossed the street, I spotted this mural. It’s painted on a pair of doors off to the side of the Andaz Fifth Avenue, a hotel that I’d never really noticed before.
The painting is signed by artist Aimee Cavazzi. I looked her up when I got home and learned that she is “artist in residence” at the Andaz. She painted this work just a few weeks ago, and she says,
“I would take the train in the spring time and early summer as a young teenager and felt, just as the picture depicts, inspired, overwhelmed and in awe of the immensity and intensity of the city.”
I know what she means, and I’m glad I still feel the same way in New York sometimes: energized, happily astonished, percolating with ideas, drawing inspiration from my surroundings.
You can see some photos of Cavazzi (and her students!) at work on the mural here.
Image: photo by Tinsel Creation.
TINSEL CREATION 
Dear Tinsel
Pubic art is does so much for both the public good and the personal cheer,
I do wish there were more of it in unconventional places such as this… just waiting to be discovered!
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Dandy, I could not agree more!
Nice! My walking path from Penn Station to my office on the east side usually takes me north of 42nd by the time I cross over to 5th. And my path home usually takes me way south of 42nd by the time I cross over to 5th. Today, I deliberately doubled back one street so I can see this for myself. Thanks for spreading the beauty!
Isn’t is nice to encounter something new and positive in midtown? I was happy enough, because I love being at the library, and then this painting made my afternoon. So glad you “peeped” it!
Lovely. My NYC jones is getting stronger by the week. Hoping to drink a sidecar with you this summer.
That would be divine. x