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Spirited Display
BY YELENA DZHANOVA
Liz Kirschner is anything but a
hoarder.
Her apartment definitely
has a lot of “stuff,” she confessed
to me over the phone,
but she is not a hoarder.
Due to the coronavirus,
I haven’t had the chance to enter
her home. But photos of her Astoria
apartment taken by her friends reveal
that she’s an artist.
There is little free space in her
home. Walls and shelves are packed
with displays of Kirschner’s own creation.
The bathroom is the only area
free of displays, she told me.
“It’s kind of like a museum of imagination,”
Kirschner said, when I asked how
she would describe her apartment.
There are objects and trinkets of different
cultures and religions, and upon first
glance, visitors may think the items are
random.
But Kirschner has a special way of organizing
them: “I place the objects based
on the belief that objects speak to one
another. So any of the objects placed in
the apartment — it's not just placed for
display, it's placed based on how they
speak to one another,” she explained.
One display consists of a lightbox with
two balloon dogs and a llama inside it.
Atop the lightbox is the word “THINK” in
all caps, a nod to IBM, where Kirschner's
INTERIOR DESIGN