We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.