All Five Senses

Meet Swoon—an artist who turned the streets of New York into a living galley renovating spaces with renegade art and true stylistic vision. Born Caledonia Curry, she started as a young woman quietly wheatpasting hand-cut portraits onto city walls. No signature, no spotlight—just powerful images of real people: neighbors, family, strangers, often women, often overlooked.

What started as late-night art missions turned into a global movement. Swoon became one of the first women to gain widespread recognition in the male-dominated world of street art, and soon her work made it into places like MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her 2014 show, Submerged Motherlands, transformed the museum’s rotunda into a dreamscape of paper trees, floating boats, and a world pulled from memory and myth—a landmark moment that blurred the line between street and fine art.

Her vision has never been confined to gallery walls. She launched Swimming Cities, a fleet of floating sculptural rafts that drifted down rivers like living installations, part sculpture, part adventure. After the earthquake in Haiti, she co-founded Konbit Shelter, building sustainable homes and proving that art could do more than inspire—it could rebuild. Through the Heliotrope Foundation, she continues using creativity to address social crises, turning imagination into action.

Her work—whether a linocut on a wall or a cathedral-like installation—always circles back to people. Their stories. Their resilience. Their right to be seen. Major retrospectives like The Canyon: 1999–2017 and Seven Contemplations trace her evolution from anonymous street artist to global voice, yet her art still carries the intimacy of its early days.

Swoon reminds women that their creativity is powerful, their voices are necessary, and their presence is non-negotiable. She makes art that disrupts, heals, and remembers—and invites others to do the same.

September baking from the road.
I was on one boat but the countries changed rapidly.
A captain once told me: “who cares where you are going all that changes for you is the view.”
It’s true, time off board is limited and unpredictable. So I throw myself into the thrill of creating, and with the right view some day dreaming.
The more internationally diverse the guests and crew are the more creative I can be at all hours of the day.
So here is a bit of casual fun:
Pretzel rolls, black cocoa brownies, mini French style pizzette, homemade bagels waiting for homemade gravlax, cinnamon rolls and raspberry muffins, heirloom tomato tart, lemon gingerbread and bourbon cream trifle, a dinner bread basket with three different homemade breads, sourdough brioche slider buns and a crispy style pepperoni pizza.

Which one would you start with first? Baking my own breads let’s me control more in terms of portion size, texture and ultimately overall meal balance.

It’s exhausting to bake 9-10 different doughs, 4-5 different pastries and 2-4 different formal desserts in a day. It’s exhausting and I love it. The extra work becomes a weird addiction and I’m here for it.

Cheers from the road.

Cooking takes you places. Sometimes this life feels like whiplash and sometimes groundhogs day.

If I consider my summer season start Memorial Day, I went from the Exumas ➡️Nassau➡️Palm beach➡️Miami➡️NYC➡️Milos➡️Athens➡️Kefalonia➡️London➡️Ghent➡️London➡️Bruges➡️Todi➡️Lucca➡️Cornwall➡️London➡️Amstedam and in 2 days I’ll be in Paris

Where I hope to see many of you at my PopUp and then who will I see in Rome? Who’s doing the Caribbean season?

This life has its pros and cons but the biggest pro is getting to meet up with fascinating people who are generous with their time and local interests. I look forward to seeing you all again somewhere in the world sooner than we can predict it!

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It’s here! The latest edition of is here and features 7 (!!!) pages of my gadget tech tips and experience with AI in the galley!
Did I miss anything? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the future of AI in and !

My take away is that now more than ever using tech tools frees up time to connect on a human level. For me this is exactly the point! When we find new ways to make work easier, we can connect as humans more authentically.
Not sure what I mean? Read all about it right here!
Link in bio!

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