the gothic window

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framing the sky

and a second attempt to see the curtains detail more clearly










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Varese Window Room (1973)

"The problem is to find the right space. Not only is the space itself important, but also its relationship to the space around it.

"With the window by Irwin at Varese, it's important that it faces a garden with many dark green trees in the background and large branches in the foreground. From the empty room, which is all white and neutral, you see nature full of life. The opposition of the empty space inside, to the outside seen through the opening, looks like a painting.

"The window becomes like the frame of a painting, a very strange painting which is real and not an illusion. The shifting image is very interesting. It's beautiful to see this wall of green, living trees. If there weren't any trees, if there was a street behind this wall of the house, everything would be lost."

Giuseppe Panza (who commissioned this installation)

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E.B. White writing in his boathouse

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figure and window

David Hare
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Lanesville (variant)

Saul Leiter

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boy (1952)

Saul Leiter

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like gravel from the window

Who will help me to starve tonight
and all the nights which may yet come?
The round moon makes a wide arc
away from me, I am already too slim for it.

How I would love it now to drop my eyes
like gravel from the window,
for a drunk down in the street
to tread them deep into first snow.

But even blind, I would still
know everything and see you leave
over again, for sparks climb
like stars of hunger from my crying.

Christine Lavant (tr. David Chorlton)

Photo: Paul Himmel, Falling Snow Boy in Window New York 1952

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flies in the window

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tinmouth window study

Howard Kanovitz,
charcoal and coloured inks on paper
(more info)

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