Entrance presents ‘The Song of My Room’, an exhibition of works created by Emily Manning in her bedroom between 2021 and 2024. At the center of the exhibition are 34 ballpoint pen drawings on paper, a series Manning calls Blue Notes. These drawings, executed on pages from a single notebook purchased at the X-Tra dollar store on Halsey and Broadway in 2013, document what Manning describes as "the Blues": images arriving through daily life and memory, including movie stills, cardboard boxes glimpsed on Chinatown sidewalks, her middle school mascot, roadside signage, songs moving one to tears. "I'd take photos of the Blues whenever I could (a paper towel dispenser in a public restroom). And sometimes, when I couldn't (blindly running into the street, chasing a fish delivery truck)," Manning notes. The drawings continued until "the Blues stopped coming."
