Tag Archives: Art

Walking Through Time: The legacy of the 8 minute canoe trip of Morris Pesin

Posted on August 23, 2026 by prashant bhatt

On the foggy, drizzly morning of June 13, 1958, Morris Pesin (1911-1992) made his historic eight-minute canoe trip to the Statue of Liberty. A year before, Morris and his wife Ethel had traveled to Liberty island from Jersey city with … Continue reading →

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Line 2 to ROM

Posted on January 2, 2026 by prashant bhatt

In this blog, I look back at some stirrings and silences from understandings of landscapes, and working tables at ROM (2014) and relate it to a recent walk through ROM with my son Sahil, where we went through paintings by … Continue reading →

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Walking Through Time- Year End Journal-2025

Posted on December 25, 2025 by prashant bhatt

In this blog, I look back at some entries of my diaries and journals, discuss how walks, naturalists, and reading groups helped me shape the year and give a worksheet for exploring local fauna and flora and local histories. I … Continue reading →

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