From My Kitchen Table

Artificial Nightlife.



Status Symbol.

New York City

I've made the move back to the United States and now I find myself in the city (for a fall internship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation). Things are different than Texas and Dublin, of course: there is always noise outside my window. I feel that I am continually rearranging my definition of "distance."

Pages

Today I felt like sharing pages from my rice paper pad.

Bones

Where does time go?

Warmth

I've been thinking about warmth as a source of comfort. The way the senses store memories. I'm experiencing an Irish summer and it's not quite the warmth that I'm used to. You know, it's surprising the amount of heat that a light bulb puts out.

Going Solo

Maybe I can wonder what the future holds



and still cherish memories



all while living for the moment.

Superheroes and Fashion

The Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at comic book influence in the fashion world in "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy."

"They each make their claim on the world by becoming Another. The ideas that dominate fashion — identity, performance, gender, body shapes, sexuality, logos and the quest for state-of-the-art materials — pretty well describe the world of the superhero."

(Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)