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@SamSpratt: My piece in the home of Micky Malka and Becky Kleiner.
I always was into how they chose to display 'Masquerade' aesthetically, but after visiting the other day and hearing stories from them, I felt moved by how meaningful of a choice the placement was.
Installed in their dining room, Masquerade's initial digital gathering got new life as a physical gathering space.
Week after week, new guests fill the chairs around it for meals, meetings, shabbats, holidays. For them, the meal isn't an isolated event. Guests since its installation have been in the hundreds, constantly cycle through - and range from family, old friends, tech titans, CEOs, film directors, museum curators, entrepreneurs, artists, students, professors, from all walks of life and from all over the world. Getting to hear from them how each configuration in each new meal has provoked intense observation, discussion, debate was truly magic.
They even keep an ipad loaded and ready to go to bring out when people start inquiring about the digital side of it all Letting people dive in on their own, reading everyone's observations and masks, exploring the digital version to see what has taken place atop it.
How they chose to share the work has authored this entirely new way in - a perfect echo of why it was made to begin with.
