This holiday I had the pleasure of working with Jane's Carousel to license my image for a holiday puzzle of the carousel in winter. I made the image the year before when a huge winter blizzard rolled through. As I make this post it's been unseasonably warm and rainy here in New York. I wish we had more snow this year. There is nothing worse than a cold rainy winter.
Me, making the Jane's Carousel Puzzle with my picture from a winter blizzard.
Music: 24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 16 in G Minor - Itzhak Perlman.
Video © harlan erskine 2018.
I hadn't made a puzzle in years and I forgot how long it takes! The above assembly of me putting it together was made over two nights and took a little over five hours. The original image is below.
Big thank you to Jane Walentas! If you haven't been to DUMBO, Brooklyn and visited the carousel; go! It's a new classic New York institution! Also, there are puzzles for sale inside the carousel building.
‘Blizzard and Jane’s Carousel’ © 2017 harlan erskine
This year I also included the above image in my holiday postcards. In a previous year, I have a more pulled back landscape of downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, and the lower Manhattan skyline as well (see below).
‘Winter over Brooklyn Bridge and Jane’s Carousel’ © harlan erskine.
The 1922 carousel was bought at auction and transported from Youngstown, Ohio. Then lovingly restored in over several decades working in a DUMBO warehouse by Jane Walentas. The carousel is housed in a beautiful modern steel and acrylic pavilion designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. For more info check out the Carousel's WIKI or watch the interview below.