+ Artist Kristen Hassenfeld’s faceted paper sculptures @ design*sponge. “Kirsten Hassenfeld creates extravagantly decorated, over-sized translucent gem and crystalline sculptures painstakingly crafted predominantly from paper. Borrowing forms and techniques from jewelry and other luxury goods, she creates opulent hybrids of traditional decorative art and otherworldly excess. Her works speak to notions of privilege, ownership, family pedigree, and the confusion of what we have with who we are through an embarrassment of riches. Using the language of the intimate domestic object (the chandelier, the curio) and the monumental public object (the obelisk, the reflecting pool,) Kirsten playfully evokes traditional markers of power and symbols of plenty, mixing their opulence with the fragility of the hand hewn.”.