Visual Essays
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My visual essays have been published by Man Repeller, Desmond & Dempsey, mildew magazine and Happy Medium. I have ideas for about five hundred more.
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Seven pages dedicated to a bronze predecessor to the pandemic puppy, 360° surveillance of New York, and Central Park’s bike loop:
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The most verdant block in New York, which you might know as the Eden you accidentally happened upon on your way to a TSA precheck appointment: the Flower District. (Another version of this essay was included in the ninth issue of the Sunday Paper, a quarterly newspaper produced and printed by Desmond & Dempsey, a luxury "pyjama" brand based in England. The issue, which ruminates on the color green, was included with an order of their pyjamas.)
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My maiden voyage on the Roosevelt Island tram:
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A pin-drop-quiet afternoon spent in the newest iteration of Madison Avenue's Breuer building, currently the anachronistic vessel for the Frick Collection. (I made this for Happy Medium, a new arts club down on Market Street.)
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Part anthropological study of New York’s sonic character by way of Shazam, part ode to lobby music and whoever controls the AUX in the city's movie theaters and drugstores:
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What to serve courtside, a collaboration with my brother, Fergusalice, and Palmes Society:
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A visual essay that clinks and, like some of its many charms, has a couple of moving parts.
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