Moving To Philadelphia

The Photos are now on Instagram! @ms.cynthiahopkins #movingtophl This week has been oppressively hot, and both Jeff and Cynthia have had to spend most of it working in mid-town Manhattan, the 9th circle of hell. Nevertheless the realms of fantasy are alive and well there and have rescued the spirits of these two folks from total despair: Jeff experienced Virtual Reality at Madame Tussaud's, pretending to shoot at imaginary ghosts; meanwhile Cynthia accidentally has fallen in love with a fictional character (who is much too young for her, even if she happened to be single which she is not) from a "young adult" teen romance book she got paid to read out loud… Back in Philadelphia, the realms of the unreal (as some choose to call them) continue to rescue humans from oppressive heat and depressing politics, in the form of visual art (tiny paintings by Louise Fishman at the ICA) and music (songs of Charles Mingus performed live outdoors in Clark Park). And so, in spite of all manner of doubts, Cynthia continues to