The Visual Suspects
When Deborah Johnson told me to keep an eye out for the blue house that “looks like a broken cake,” I wasn’t sure what I’d find, but as I approached her Clinton Hill home, the description made perfect sense. The sky-blue house slumped as if it had been over-frosted by a child. Johnson is no stranger to translating images into words and more often, music into stunning visuals. If you’ve been to a Sufjan Stevens, M. Ward, Wilco, St. Vincent, Lambchop or Calexico concert in the last ten years there’s a good chance you’ve seen her work.