Contributed by Leslie Wayne / I recently had the pleasure of visiting the artist Sally Gall in her midtown studio on a cold and snowy day – a perfect opportunity to get out of my own head and into the mind and process of someone else. Gall is a photographer of natural phenomena, yet her images are otherworldly and hard to identify. They include close-up undersides of laundry hanging from clotheslines on a windy day, faraway kites, and rock faces that look like Franz Kline paintings.