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“Seeing different objects together, seeing
different colors, seeing how different
things play off, allows me to see things
differently when you’re creating jewelry,”
continued Kirschner, who also runs
an event production company. “Does
something Japanese go with something
Mexican? Or should it go with something
mid-century?”
Another glass display is home to a bird
from Mexico, two Japanese toys, a Buddha,
an air plant, and an artwork featuring
another bird. Leaning on the glass
display are the “Italian little homies,”
who Kirschner said remind her of her
colleagues. “I somehow thought they all
worked together.”
On a door hangs a clock atop what
looks like an extension of the clock drawn
right under. But “the piece that looks like
a drawing isn’t a drawing,” Kirschner said.
“It was in the trash down by Canal St. in
the ‘90s. They have like a mini theater and
they threw all these props out. And that
was a prop.” She nailed the prop to the
door and then added a clock from Ikea
“so it can look like a time machine.”
“Usually the reaction when people
come in the house is, ‘Oh my God,’” she
said. “It's a home; it's just a lot of stuff to
look at.”
Indeed, there’s a lot to take in when you
look around. Looking at her one-bedroom
space, I wondered on our call how
she got the space to appear much bigger
than her descriptions made it seem.
Kirschner told me: she’s a fan of optical
illusions.
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