“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“Shape Shadows, 1934” Charles Green Shaw The term Precisionism was first coined in the mid 1920’s by MOMA Director Alfred H Barr. It is an Art movement you may not have heard of, but I suspect have encountered, perhaps even had a print on your wall at some point. Precisionism was essentially the offspring of… Read more

“Never say oops in the operating room…” Leo Troy So here we have the Pennsylvania Hospital Surgical Amphitheatre. It was built in 1804 and the last operation was performed here in 1868. It seated 180 people and slept one. The room employed natural light from the glass dome above, and surgery was only ever scheduled… Read more