Art of Temptation

Hand-fashioned signs, composed with chalk or pen, paintbrush or grease pencil, are an increasingly common sight in many Queens neighborhoods. In spirit, these signs are as different from their mass-produced counterparts as a batch of homemade cookies, still warm from the oven, is different from a commercially packaged sack on a supermarket shelf. Read more on Edible Queens. And, since so few of the photos considered for my essay "Art of Temptation" could possibly fit in the print edition, here are the collected outtakes.