When do high ceilings framed by skin-bare, unpainted walls and long expanses of hardwood floor start to glitter with lights, and invite? When do pleasant archways successively crowning the shafts of narrow hallways, window-sills, frames and glass bring actual dimension to a space? When people weave in between one another, converse and shed ideas. Like […]
Treading the graffiti-laden streets of Bushwick Open Studios , a golden hour’s sunset portended closing. Suddenly, a fractal of fireworks burst in my face: say hello to the exquisite Allison Eden Studio. A perspectival entryway bestowed with translucent shapes and colors abound, I drown amid pixilated bliss. A leading custom glass supplier for commercial and […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
