THREE

WINDOWS

Created for Il Progetto Domestico (The Domestic Project), an exhibition at the seventeenth Triennale di Milano, Three Windows is an installation representing urban, suburban, and rural windows, and comprising self-supporting particleboard walls, copper, chain mail, and scale models.

The installation incorporates several basic assumptions:

The window excludes the inside from the outside and the outside from the inside.

The window is a legal limit that tempts the uninvited.

The window is an apparatus that conspires with other machines to homogenize weather.

The window resists horizontal load and collects dust.

The window is a section cut through light on which opposing elevations are projected.

The window is a frame that takes the viewer out of all reference to place and time.

The window is the moment when vanishing point and vantage point converge.

The window is a slow liquid, “a delay in the glass.”