I had never been to Gino's East before.
There is SO MUCH character there! I walked away from dinner last Friday night wanting desperately to go home and write on every surface in my room (and maybe in the elevators and hallways, too --- just to see if anyone would join me ...)
This particular snapshot, containing the smallest fraction of the overwhelming amount of signatures commanding the walls at Gino's East, drew my attention because of the color it contains. The expressive nature of the types of writing creates a very organic nature in this image that makes it feel very approachable.
I was completely in awe of how many people had left their mark. On lights. On tables. On picture frames. On the stair rails. There was a sense of excitement in leaving something behind that you might be able to come back to someday, or at least to leave as a testament that you were once there. I went with someone who had last visited the restaurant when he was 8 years old. He is now 23. We quickly realized, based on the number of people that the waiters seemed to be expecting on a Friday night, along with the amount of signatures on the wall, that they must paint the restaurant over at a rather frequent interval - so were unable to locate his name.
What are the things we hope to come back to someday? We seem to leave them in the excitement of a single moment, wondering if we will ever get to look at, and experience, them again ....
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