In some ways, this was, I think, the best photo I took in Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Art Museum. In Brooklyn, as in much of America, the beautiful lives right next to the mundane. Beauty and earth always give way to money and marketing, and it was striking to me that this trash can sits alone in a hallway, right on the other side of some of the most beautiful and valuable paintings in the world. Steve Jobs taught that what we could not see or could barely see was, in so many ways, as important as what we could see.

So the inside of his computers were as carefully designed as the outside. In the corporate ethos, this made him insane, and I would be quite surprised if this tradition outlasted him. To me, as I stood watching it, the plastic trash can was quite lovely. Maybe I’m just crazy also.