Image credit: detail from Numberless Masts of Ships and the Thick Stemm’d Pipes of Steamboats by Greg Lindquist
Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!
I was not born a Brooklyn girl; it’s true, my heart will always be in the West. The seemingly endless space and sky out there are infinitely comforting, even if they’re not as vast and unchanging as I’d like to think. In Brooklyn, the skyline is crowded by warehouses abutting heavy, leaden air along the East River. Large but low slung, these buildings seem to hold up the horizon, forming a barrier between the borough and Manhattan’s more oppressive high-rises. As captured in Greg Lindquist’s metallic paintings, they defend a horizon equally comforting and foreboding.
