In One Another's World
Someone passes, someone works, someone watches. A face meets its reflection; a gesture finds an echo across the street. For a moment, lives that may never meet occupy the same picture.
Pictures Among People
Pictures hang from a fence or gather on a stall. Their sellers and viewers become part of another picture, made by the open air and the passing light.
Among Other Pictures
A vendor crouches among hanging prints, his patterned shirt joining their colors. For a moment, the person tending the pictures becomes another part of their arrangement.
Pictures Take the Air
Pictures are displayed outdoors. The street supplies their changing surroundings and the people who stop to look.
Before the Foot Returns
A runner lifts away from the pavement beside the reservoir. Behind the suspended stride, the Manhattan skyline holds its place.
Room for a Small Life
Stairways rise, children gather, a guitarist plays, and two small figures watch the carriages. Across these city scenes, ordinary acts occupy the space beneath the larger structures.
Stairs Above the Crowd
The Vessel rises above the people at its base. Its repeating stairways carry the eye upward from the crowded ground.
Making Room in the Picture
Children in winter coats gather beneath a raised selfie stick. Within the larger street scene, they are making a picture of their own.
A Place for a Song
A guitarist plays beside the stone pillars of Bethesda Terrace. Fallen leaves lie at his feet, and the arcade opens around his small performance.
Two Small Witnesses
Two children in matching hats watch the horse-drawn carriages. From behind them, the scene opens at the height of their attention.
For as Long as It Lasts
A dancer balances on one hand. A soap bubble holds a shifting shape in the air. In the park, play makes forms that last only as long as the moment allows.
The Park Keeps Time
A dancer balances upside down on one hand beneath the autumn trees. Around him, the watching figures keep their feet on the ground.
A Brief Architecture
Soap bubbles take shape in the air. The space around them becomes visible for as long as their thin surfaces hold.
A Small Line of People
People lean along a curved balcony beneath the Oculus's white ribs. Their small figures give the sweep of the building a human measure.
New York, at a Distance
New York, 2020. Masks enter daily routines, plywood covers shop windows, and an older man looks out during lockdown. Across these photographs, the city remains inhabited even where distance has become newly visible.
The Street Under Plywood
New York, 2020. A masked woman passes a boarded storefront marked BLM. Sunlight falls across the temporary walls of a city living through more than one upheaval.
Spring Reaches the Windows
New York, 2020. Flowering branches spread across a brick facade. During the pandemic spring, the tree brings the season close to the windows.
Still in Color
New York, 2020. Green hair and pink headphones pass a yellow wall. A mask belongs to the same day's clothing, amid colors that remain emphatically personal.
Across the Changed Street
New York, 2020. A cyclist crosses the street. An ordinary movement passes through a city whose daily rhythms have changed.
Room to Cross
New York, 2020. A masked man crosses a near-empty avenue. The familiar street opens around him with an unfamiliar amount of space.
The Mail Still Comes
New York, 2020. A masked mail carrier passes a glass door that repeats his figure. The day's deliveries continue through the altered city.
A Route Through the Day
New York, 2020. A runner moves through the park. During the pandemic, a stretch of open ground remains a place for the body to keep moving.
A Color That Stays
New York, 2020. A patterned jacket remains bright beneath the scaffolding as the surrounding street turns monochrome. One figure holds the picture's color.
At the Window
New York, 2020. During lockdown, an older man looks out from one of four windows. The street lies beyond the frame; the window is his point of contact with it.
Where People Look Out
People gather at a viewpoint. The place from which the view is seen becomes a scene of its own.
An Afternoon in Passing
Bright facades hold their places as people pass and gather before them. A step and a shadow mark smaller intervals within the afternoon.
A Step Beneath Forever
Beneath a sign promising enduring love, a woman's heel lifts from the pavement. The red railings hold their line above her passing.
At the Building's Edge
People stand outside a building. Along its edge, the built city meets the smaller scale of an ordinary day.
A Mountain Within Reach
A gorilla raises an arm before a painted mountain. The distant landscape ends at the enclosure wall.
On Either Side of Looking
Faces gather on either side of the glass. The gorilla and the visitors seem briefly to share a direction of attention, while the pane keeps their worlds apart.
A Hand Across the Story
A costumed performer reaches toward a child on the pavement. For a moment, the imagined character and the passing day come within touching distance.
Hands at Work, Bodies at Rest
A baker works behind glass; visitors lean along a waterfront railing. These two scenes place the day's labor beside the time spent looking outward.
Morning Made by Hand
Hands press dough beside rows of waiting loaves. Window light crosses the work, giving the morning a shape before it reaches the street.
An Afternoon at the Rail
People lean over the railing to watch sea lions on the docks. Along the waterfront, looking becomes a way of spending the afternoon.
Ways of Staying by the Water
A canopy lifts above the shore; two chairs face a passing ship. The pair holds two ways of meeting the same open space, through movement and through rest.
A Shape the Air Can Hold
A curved canopy lifts above a figure on the shore. Offshore, a ship carries another kind of weight across the same view.
Let the Ship Go By
Two people sit in red chairs as a ship passes beneath the bridge. The immense vessel moves through the small view they have settled into.
Faces Above the Workday
Painted faces rise over a row of mixer trucks. The silos give the industrial yard a set of improbable onlookers.
The City Already in Pictures
A meal appears through reflections, a cat joins the roof guardians, and workers stand beneath oversized words. The figures of the living city enter its windows, ornaments, and signs.
The Street Joins the Table
Two women eat behind a restaurant window. Reflections, lanterns, and signs enter the glass, bringing the street into the space around their table.
One of Them Can Leave
A cat sits among the roof guardians. For the moment, it holds its place in their procession.
A Face Left Unseen
A painted fan covers a woman's face. Her dress and gesture remain in view, while the portrait keeps its center to itself.
Working Beneath the Words
Workers stand beside large gold characters on a facade. The scale of the lettering draws attention to the small human figures tending it.
Beneath the Lit Words
The market fills the night with bright lettering. Beneath it, a seated figure, a performer, and two people at a shopfront give the spectacle its human scale.
A Borrowed Shape
A performer takes the shape of a panda. In the street, an invented creature briefly occupies a human place.
Beside the Shopfront
Two people stand outside a shop. Their shared place at the edge of the doorway holds a small interval in the street.
A Gesture Finds Its Echo
A passerby's raised hand meets the sweep of a figure on a billboard. At two different scales, the gestures briefly belong to the same movement.
A Pause with Company
Two men share a phone outside a shop. Elsewhere, a group pauses beneath an umbrella as traffic passes. The street continues around these small gatherings.
Between Two Smiles
Two men share a look at a phone outside a shop. Reflections and lettering fill the window behind their conversation.
Two Speeds of an Afternoon
Women gather beneath an umbrella while a scooter blurs past. The steps hold one pace of the afternoon; the street carries another.
Along the Same Pavement
Steam fills a counter, and cloth unfolds beside the food stalls. The street brings these neighboring gestures into the same busy field of signs and faces.
The Meal Takes Shape
Steam rises around a young cook and the food-stall counter. Hands, trays, and faces emerge from it as a meal takes shape.
