Above it all, shrimp designs dance across the original tin ceiling, a hint, perhaps, that the place started life as a seafood market.
Through the looking glass -- in this case an exquisite stained-glass door from Buenos Aires -- is the only other room within these 1,850 square feet. Its walls bear a pair of foil Day of the Dead shields and eyes -- drawn, photographed and painted, including an eye in a box by French symbolist Odilon Redon -- that fix on yours. Everywhere, everywhere, dream-like black-and-white photographs, many with Spanish titles, stop you in your tracks.
And this is where somebody works ?
Quite nicely, says Sacabo, who is featured through early January in a 25-year retrospective of her work at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, a major exhibit that also honors New Orleans sculptor Ersy Schwartz and painter George Dureau.