These are from last year, drawn on the spot in the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory cafeteria. I was using a wonderful fat pigment marker at the time.
The LDEO campus used to be an estate; it retains vestiges of that past. There's a Victorian garden, an apple orchard, old buildings. And there's the cafeteria, which used to be the pool (or natatorium, perhaps). The pool itself is now a basement with tiled walls (!), messily storing lots of outdated science equipment and people's old files. But the cafeteria part has the pool's huge old windows, good for catching a lunchtime patch of sun. I can only imagine how lovely it must have been to swim there.
Over a couple of months, I drew lots and lots of scientists eating. I tried to be sneaky, but I'm sure some of them caught me at it.
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I love these - and your description of the campus. These reused or simply preserved old estates have so much character. Envious!
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