“In a micro-community of a six floor walk-up, one resident is often ridiculously sickly, another cares more for others than herself, while next door a man lives quietly tucked away behind a camera & a woman measures her worth by finding herself in front of it. Along the winding pictures of their lives we visually and sonically experience the distorting, delicate nature of their world illustrated by an installation-like set with projections and original music. ‘The World Under the Magnifying Glass’, or ‘Glassy’ for short, is a sequence of snapshots capturing four neighbors moving through private fragilities, and together practicing a muscular hope.”