It was framed out and drywalled but otherwise unfinished: no bathroom or kitchen fixtures, no moldings.
The Alexan is framed out to its full four-story height -- and just south, across the Bayonne Bay channel, the lighthouse tower on the clubhouse at the private Bayonne Golf Club stands tall on a grassy hill.
The classroom looked as if it had been a multipurpose space since the day it was framed out.
The plaza is covered in newly poured concrete, and the stairs that will someday deposit visitors on the beach are framed out.
Curators from the sculpture park first approached the artist last fall, when builders were framing out the 25-foot-tall gallery space, originally a warehouse.
Volumes began to be broken up and painted pages cut out to be framed as "miniatures".
But if Siegelman were framed to get him out of the way, what's the public interest in that?
"It's framed like you're looking out of a window, sort of like trompe l'oeil," said Maria Powell, who was waiting at the bar for her dinner date.
While everything -- and I mean EVERY thing -- is framed, some frames win out over others.
Or, perhaps, after so many years of judicial disarray, they thought that, if they were being framed, the only way out was to frame someone else.
