A Performance In Stills, Sort Of

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One hundred-and-twenty performers of all ages and backgrounds, dressed and undressed, posed or moving slightly, cover drained-shrouded bleachers rising from a multi-colored marble floor to the base of a giant mosaic panel, a bird’s-eye landscape of “Breuckelen,” that occupies the high wall at one end of the old Williamsburg Bank Building’s banking base. Welcome to Sarah Small’s Tableau Vivant-of the Delirium Constructions.

See the building — One Hanson Quarters — if you can. Byzantine Romanesque-style, the banking hall features a vaulted 63-foot-huge, gold-leaf mosaic ceiling embedded with molded stars showing the constellations of the Zodiac. Patterned limestone lines the walls topped by friezes carved in two-aircraft relief with foliate scrolls, animal and human figures. A central nave and Romanesque columns delineate side-aisles. Cheek grille-work fronts teller booths; glass doors have wrought iron screens depicting artisan trades. The erection’s

Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle