New Yorkers, let’s go and float on Doug Wheeler’s cloud installation.
This looks incredible.
Curtain Door by Matharoo Associates
At 5.2m high and 1.7m wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm-thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot.
Stacked one above the other in the closed position, each plank can then rotate by a simple push causing the door to reconfigure into a sinusoidal curve.
“Writing a poem about lust, pride, imprudence—about ordering a call girl or staying at ‘literally the most expensive hotel in the world’ or racing a bike at 200 mph—has a way of neutralizing the unpleasantness of that vice. To write a good poem about an ugly thing, as Seidel does often, is not to write an ugly poem.”
Winter Flags (East Village, New York) is out on 20x200 today! It’s one of my favorite images (of my own), so I’m really, really honored to have it on the site. (Jen also wrote some incredibly kind words about my work in the newsletter.)
