Tracer Bullets (or Visiting With Krista Gruaer and Beryl Sokoloff)


I have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot of this black on black Yankee cap this season. I really like it. It’s sad… and this guy works at the Footlocker in Times Square where it is available… it’s like baseball in mourning for the Pope or something… I was off to see Christa Gruaer after getting an e-mail from an ex grilfriend I hadn’t heard from since before college even…so a wave of Harvard Summer School memories following on a morning of drive Zorg around looking for a parking spot while listening to Johnathan Richman: I Johnathan… That Summer Feeling indeed… and since pictures are worth a thousand words….


kubrick maybe?




It was real good luck having met Krista and her man of Forty some odd years (and still unmarried… thanks much) Beryl Sokoloff through Dadi Wirz… also good luck and priviledge to have shown them at IT IN space in SoHo… aroud the corner from Krista’s space…. where we used to lunch and have wine whenever I felt lonesome… which was often….



Beryl is a great filmmaker and photographer… the thing with him is that he has the same love of mixing double prints of the same image that I have… and so when I saw his work, it was like meeting my own eyes.


He was also first rate New York School painter… student of Rubin Kaddish and friend to Jackson Pollock, etc…


From the visit we went to an opening at the Swiss Institute… where I lost them, but how nice to see old friends on such a spring day.


and so back to Korea and Larry by way of the peephole of Christa’s work…
July 19th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
It is wonderful to see this report on Ms. Gruaer and Mr. Sokoloff. The photo of them with the film rewinds in the foreground is fantastic! It is great to see and know more abou their work!