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Funky Is Never Out of Step

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Everything breaks. Wine glasses. Space satellites. People. Sometimes the entire world feels – like this funky red high-heel shoe seat – completely broken. Out of step with its purpose and value to the world. But you can never break funky...Read More

Lost Innocence

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New York City is a place of lost innocence. From broken dreams and life-changing mistakes to financial ruin and regretful relationships, this City feeds on lost innocence like a midnight raccoon in a Central Park trash can. And that’s a...Read More

Every Trash Can Is a Self-Portrait

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Trash cans are ugly. They smell. But, like our own regrets and memories, we need trash cans to collect our life moments and take them away to make room for new ones. Every trash can in New York City is...Read More

Love Seat in the Street Light

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There is a special poignancy to abandoned furniture alone at night, empty and void of life in the street light. This love seat with its misshapen pillow is still full of life, void of cat scratches, coffee stains, and the...Read More

Temporary Lives

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New York City is a transient experience – a bustling hub of countless souls hustling from one place to another, one relationship to another, and one life to another. The byproducts and carnage of those constant transitions line the sidewalks...Read More