Month: August 2025

Up close, the paintings of Chuck Close look like swarms of color fragments. Step back, and suddenly a vivid face emerges, alive with detail. That simple shift in perspective holds a lesson for innovators everywhere. I call it transformation through expansion. The idea is simple: small, ordinary units, when linked together in certain ways, can … Read more

I was back in New York recently and made a stop at the East 86th Street subway station. Tucked into the walls there are Chuck Close’s mosaics, giant portraits staring at commuters and shimmering in tile and glass. They are a fitting tribute to an artist whose life’s work was obsessed by faces, even though … Read more