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Tapas. Hotel atriums. Tapas bars inside hotel atriums. Wall niches. Track lighting. Laminated information cards. Eight kinds of curtain valances. Indoor things designed to look like outdoor things. Blue-tinted water glasses. Hammered copper elevator doors. Brass earrings like Buddhist gongs. Thing and thing and thing: a life assembled from details that almost mean something.

From virtual Portland to the streets of Boston, a woman moves through spaces that blur together— corporate, decorativ...