It started with yogurt cups. I would paper-clip a bunch of them together, so they made a curved shape like the surface of a sphere, with the open ends facing out, looking like a hive.
I got some clear (and tinted) plastic cups, clipped them together, and took pictures of them against the window, or throwing shadows on the wall.
I'm fond of this slightly modified image from 2006, and hope its simplicity helps it rise above its pedestrian source: looking up toward the boiling summer sky at a building on 57th St. near 8th Ave.
Frames went out of style long ago as paintings became not just pictures but objects. The thin excuse for this post is the picture above. It's of one of my (favorite) paintings, digitally installed in a frame just to see what it would look like. I think the gilded frame and melting painting go together in a nice, molten way.