The next time I get a shipment with funky styrofoam packaging too cool to throw away, I’m taking it straight to Studio 3242 North State, workplace of artist Richard McKey. You know the place—you’ve seen the studio next to Parents for Public Schools on State Street: a cool building of natural wood and ruffled tin sporting wild sculptures of mannequin arms and scrap metal on a lot with a 20-foot drop from the street. A parcel of land unwanted, cast off, seemingly unbuildable, until McKey’s vision of a studio created a landmark and a work of art in itself.
