Mirrors & Frames
The Chipped Corner of a Plaster Frame
I bought the frame at an estate sale two summers ago, mostly because of the corner. Three of its four corners were intact, gilded gesso built up in the kind of...
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Leaning Frames and the Marks They Leave
The first frame I ever leaned instead of hung was a plain black metal one, holding a photograph of my sister at…
The Shapes Left Behind After a Move
The apartment we moved into two years ago came with a set of ghosts on the walls, faint rectangles and squares in…
The Mirror That Lost Its Silver
The mirror hangs in the hall between the kitchen and the back bedroom, a spot too narrow for anything but a coat…
The Small Distortions of a Convex Mirror
I found the convex mirror at an outdoor flea market on a cold Saturday, half buried under a stack of picture frames…
Wood, Metal, and the Decades They Keep
I bought two frames on the same afternoon, from the same shop, within about ten minutes of each other, one of solid…
What the Mantel Mirror Catches at Four O’clock
The mirror above the mantel is nothing special on its own, an oval frame in a dull bronze finish that I bought…