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Sunlit Shadows: An Alphabet City Summer, 2019Ink, graphite, colored pencil, and soft pastel on paper9 × 14 inches© Aurélie Bernard Wortsman -- Downtown Palimpsest extends Aurélie Bernard Wortsman’s ongoing portrait of a city in flux through three interconnected sites. The series opens in Alphabet City, where a vacant lot, overgrown and sunlit, marks the city in a moment of pause. Neither [...]
It was quite an operation. Lookouts on walkie-talkies patrolled the roofline, and a scout on a bike pedaled up and down the block, combing 7th Street between Avenues B and C. A guy in a ski mask stood guard at an open window on one of the apartment building’s upper floors, ready to service the growing line on the sidewalk [...]
