HAPPY ACCIDENTS
Perfect! It’s a word we use much too easily (and lazily) in the magazine industry. “____ makes a perfect summer appetizer. ____ is this season’s perfect paint color.” Editors tend to use perfect as shorthand for something that’s the very best, very good, or sometimes just OK. But by overusing this perfectly acceptable word, are we in danger of eroding its meaning? We have high standards for our stories and photography in the magazine, but most of the time I am actually searching for imperfection rather than the opposite. I prefer to eat a delicious cake that looks a little wonky instead of an exquisite-looking dessert that is bland and ordinary. I like a wild and gestural flower arrangement over a tight and sterile one. I want my house to look…
