A7: New Hampshire Entrance Hall, 1799 c. 1940

This is "A7: New Hampshire Entrance Hall, 1799," a miniature interior made by Narcissa Niblack Thorne. What I love about Thorne's work is the way she condenses the grand gestures of architecture into a tiny, intimate scale. Look at the floor: the dark wood planks gleam with a polished surface. It's such a contrast to the matte, almost chalky texture of the walls. See how the light catches the edges of the stair treads? The shift from light to dark is so abrupt it almost feels abstract. It's like a Rothko painting turned into a functional object. The whole thing is a conversation between surface and form. The precise details and sharp geometry remind me of the work of Charles Sheeler, who found abstraction in the everyday architecture of industrial America. Artmaking is like that - it's always about finding new ways to see the world, blurring the lines between what is real and what is imagined.