NY BY BRYNN WALLNER

Brynn Wallner is a creative director, painter, producer and freelance writer based out of New York City. Here are some of her paintings portraying how New York feels to her.

"Could the city have been my first true love? I grew up just across the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey and started my freshman year of high school in downtown Manhattan. Commuting was kind of a bitch, but emerging from the subway every morning was like, oh my god, the energy. I'm in New York. After school I would meander around the city, avoiding homework in favor of aimless, dreamy walks, listening to music burned on CDs by new friends and crushes. Lou Reed... one fine morning she put on a New York station, she couldn't belieeeeve what she heard at all. The Virgin Mega Store in Union Square, tiny hidden streets in the West Village, my best friend's dark loft on Walker Street, the American Apparel on Broadway. All these places I spent wasting time when it wasn't time wasted at all. It was a love affair, a New York education!"

-Brynn Wallner