SLEEK — Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
Charlie Stein turns the fragmented contradictions of our present into eerie mirrors of subjective truth.
Marcus Boxler, SLEEK Magazine, October 10, 2025
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More than 100 years ago, a man in a suit stood for hours at the tomb of Pope
Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli. He had traveled from Vienna, as
he had done several times before, to stand before this one sculpture that forms
part of the tomb: Michelangelo’s Moses . Only a year later, this man would begin
an academic text with the following words: “I must preface by admitting that I
am no connoisseur of art, but a layman. For many of the means and effects of
art, I actually lack proper understanding.”
