Contributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentiments
Try outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you.
M.E. Grey is a Brussels-based poet who humbly suggests, for those reading this on a mobile device or otherwise small screen, to go horizontal.
Hang together
A framed print of a New Yorker cover hanging on the wall of a European apartment claims an affiliation with a certain kind of internationalism or America at its best If you brought the occupants of all these apartments together would it be a successful dinner party?
Tribal envoys
There is a category of person who wears for exercise or relaxation clothing marked in blocky serif with the name of the university they attended. Late twentysomethings with athletic builds and ambitious eyes running the parks of Europe’s capitals emblazoned with Ivy League names. And the middle-aged moving more slowly freighted with (is it?) experience. Their acme in art: President Jed Bartlett of The West Wing in the Oval Office on a Sunday wearing his comfy Notre Dame sweater. Where this is the continued use of existing material purchased in youth you can relate: waste not. Unfamiliar is the decision to buy such threads fresh as a grown-up.
