Regan Good

Once a garden with a clubhouse where cookouts and conversation were had, everything died the minute a developer stepped in to sell the lot.  Before the “Corn Lot” (as I called it) was destroyed, rows and rows of corn were planted each spring; the corn stalks were an incongruous, nearly…

This short photo-essay is a look at the many ways Brooklynites address and interact with the invisible, be it perceived demons, gods, a God—or the dead. As Herman Melville wrote: “Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.”

Bed-Stuy’s "gravestone murals" are not sanctioned public art; therefore, they have no protections. When we lose these murals, what have we lost?

In the historic neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, murals exist to keep the community together– and to help it remember.