This past weekend I was upstate and it was enchanting as expected. Bryan spoke to aspiring journalists at Cornell and made the front page of the paper. We drove around and saw some sights, seriously waffled (as usual) at a vintage & antiques hotspot, hung out at Gimme Coffee's best outpost, and enjoyed the exquisite natural beauty of the Finger Lakes Region. We also did some shopping at one of Ithaca's best independent bookstores and I picked up Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency, the inspiration for a forthcoming show at jen bekman. Today's Windowlicker comes courtesy of Theresa Duncan, who quite serendipitously came across an upstate connection while browsing online and sent it in:
Everyone is familiar with souvenir plates featuring stereotypical views of European capitals or other picturesque tourist attractions. Instead, Constantin Boym offers a set of plates devoted to unknown, completely non-descript areas of upstate New York. The views, taken with a digital camera, are "almost all right", to use the expression of Robert Venturi, yet there is always something slightly off key, either a jumble of telephone wires overhead, or a "wrong" car on the road.
[Upstate Collection Mohonk Plate, $90 at Moss]
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