brass ring

“The gears of capitalism are such that it’s unlikely. There are too many brass rings here in the music world, and when push comes to shove, people just deal with it.”

That’s a fundamental concern of sculpture in every artistic age and culture — its brass ring, if you will — and here it does yeoman’s work in energizing spaces both actual and illusionistic.

“They are that brass ring that everyone chased, only to find that it was made out of tin,” Shapiro said.

Upgrading once-ignored food into tasty, healthy treats is the brass ring of food waste prevention efforts.

There is no ladder of success in the business, there is no brass ring at the end.