“Hermitizing for the last 20 years in New Orleans has been a lot like living in one’s own personal Walker Percy novel. It been a good place for me to work. Artists always seem to find something here [New Orleans} that infects them, that they take with them, back to wherever, something transformative, and it keeps them returning here from time to time. To reacquaint with it, it teaches things that New York does not. I can speak to this because I have spent over 2 decades in both cities, and I know first-hand that both are invaluable. They have shaped me for better or worse, I was home on 9/11 and I was home for Katrina.” – James Macdonell
