Two weeks in New York - finding "rosebud".
Statue of Liberty being photographed from the Staten Island Ferry The flight from New York home to Singapore takes a bit less than 24 hours including a couple of hours to change planes in Tokyo - hours and hours sitting 10 kilometres above the earth’s surface with a few centimetres of aeronautical engineering between the bodies within and the minus 60 degree, very thin air outside. Somewhere above the arctic circle, I started watching Orson Welles’ 1940s Hollywood classic, Citizen Kane . It seemed the right film to be watching in that strange space between cultures and time zones. As I sat endlessly in a darkened airplane and reflected on my two weeks in New York, Welles spoke of something essential about the American psyche. A frame for understanding. Looking at the Empire State from on top of the Rockefeller Building Citizen Kane is set in early 20 th century America and tells the story of a billionaire newspaper magnate who builds a mansion which he fills with the greatest art...