A Provincetown Breeze Drifts Indoors With Local Art
by Brett Sokol via The New York Times
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — It’s tempting to slap an analog-versus-digital, “opposites attract” label on Ted Chapin and his husband, Torrence Boone. After all, Mr. Chapin, a retired architect, has painstakingly assembled a series of hand-held sculptures from vintage typewriter parts, while Mr. Boone, Google’s vice president for global agency sales and services, is more focused on analytics and artificial intelligence.
Yet Mr. Chapin insisted that though his sculptures may be drastically downsized from his skyscrapers, they’re as mathematically precise as any computer algorithm: “It’s all about structural engineering. To me it’s just pure play. But it’s still very structured — it’s all bolted. There’s no welding or glue.”
It’s in their shared love of Provincetown artists where the couple’s interests most obviously converge. Work by a local “Who’s Who” — past and present — fills both their Manhattan apartment and their compound-like summer home here, which includes an adjoining small barn repurposed into Mr. Chapin’s studio and a separate guesthouse often filled with artists from the town’s Fine Arts Work Center residency program. (Mr. Chapin is co-chairman of the board.)
