Arts & Culture

Q&A: Frank Oriti

by Meghan Bogardus | Oct. 21, 2011 | 4:00 AM

I've lived in this neighborhood for the better part of my life, and I came home to visit, and for the first time, I actually noticed the makeup of the city. It's all block after block of pretty much the same style house.

I was painting this background [of one painting], and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. I kept putting white over [the houses] and repainting it and then I wouldn't like it, so I'd paint white over it again. And every time I'd paint over it, the house was still showing through.

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