Opposite: Elizabeth Felicella’s portrait of the Clarendon Branch of the Brooklyn Public library. Below: The borough’s Eastern Parkway Branch. The project, which received funding by the New york State Council of the Arts’ Architecture and Planning Program and the Graham Foundation, encompasses all 215 city branches. That unique perspective afforded her the ability to capture not only the inherent (if quirky) beauty of each branch, but also its evolution.“The spaces are an incredible composite of use by many people over time,” says Felicella. She loves the ad hoc adaptations that are made to keep the facilities functional, a kind of on-the-fly design with improvised alterations. “Besides representing ingenuity, these modifications often reflect changes in the very act of reading itself.” perspective ©2010 elizaBeth Felicella. elizaBethFelicella.coM. 49http://www.ELIZABETHFELICELLA.COM