Xinyi Ye
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- Aug 24, 2026
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Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay (opens the original)
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Too often, photographers play with images of ruin aesthetics with the aim of triggering a sense of lament, but Steven Seidenberg takes a different approach—his camera has captured the change of time in structures as diverse as pipe valves in Berlin and Venice, decaying plastic flowers in mausolea in Genoa, and most recently, squatted or abandoned buildings. In each, he foregrounds the stories of the people who created them or lived in them with sympathy and an eye toward resilience. One of his m
Leslie Lewis Sigler On Turning Heirlooms into Portraits of a Life (opens the original)
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Each of California-based artist Leslie Lewis Sigler’s carefully rendered arrangements carries stories of kinship and memory, with everyday objects becoming literal and symbolic family members that commemorate different chapters of life. Her exploration of heirlooms began with a collection of silver she inherited after a family member passed away. “I felt honored to receive them, but didn’t really know what to do with them,” Sigler tells Observer. The pieces remained tucked away in a closet until
Ron Arad’s Unconstrained Objects and the Mind Behind Them (opens the original)
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“What happens if you have a ping-pong table that is not straight, that has a curve?” Designer Ron Arad never runs out of ideas that push through existing forms, shapes and concepts. “I never follow instructions. If you can have a career that doesn’t rely on you following conventions or instructions, you are very lucky. And I consider myself lucky,” he tells Observer. But it’s more than luck—a mastermind full of imagination that never surrenders is what Arad offers to the world of design and to t
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