Photographs of apartment façades from across Manhattan, tiled and mirrored until the buildings dissolve into pattern — lace, beadwork, the repeat of a woven textile.
Glamour has become an ordinary part of daily life: not only the glamour of celebrity, but the pull to present oneself as part of it. A building front is the city’s most literal version of that. Windows lit and unlit, each one a household, arranged into a surface that reads as ornament from far enough away.
The jewellery is the argument. What makes a piece worth anything is rarely one bright stone; it is the setting, many small parts held in relation. A city block works the same way — people living side by side, adjusting to each other, each still going after something of their own.
Ten pieces from this collection are available as prints, canvases and homeware through Fine Art America.
