(Making, NYC) Heatherwick has an uncanny design sense that I find purely jaw dropping. Discovering his book ‘Making’ early in Grad school was an eye opening realization of what Architects do to problem solve. Thomas’ studio challenges the norm with positive and pragmatic visions that truly provide positive social impact. Now, in New York . . .

(Chama Mama, 14th St.) Captured within a high pointed Georgian restaurant, lies a multimedia collage so eye catching I couldn’t help but photograph it. Dead center of the composition is an eerily joyful female with what could be a botched lipstick job, but the blood strewn across the painting clues the viewer to something darker. My first thought before I noticed the woman’s blouse was an artwork merging different time periods. The ivy leaves in her hair evoke a Hellenistic Greek chaplet. Next to it . . .