Donald Featherstone

It seems to me that Don believed deep down that our worlds were worth decorating, and that doing so was a joyful act. “The people who use lawn ornaments are typically friendly because they’re decorating the outside of their house for someone else,” he once told an interviewer.

I appreciated writer Claire Voon’s framing of the lawn flamingo phenomenon:

[The flamingo’s] enduring presence speaks to a desire to accessorize and embellish our personal spaces ; to transform and color the generic with individual tastes. As Featherstone told the Chicago Tribune : “An empty lawn is like an empty coffee table; you have to do someth

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