construction.
In the morning of new year’s day I pondered, horizontally and from my bed, on how I liked my bedroom window. How it has given me joy, and made me wake up happy. Then I thought I should do a window myself.
Construction of a Window, in which I will make a window on a solid outer wall of preferably a museum, but only after commissioning several painters to paint what they imagine to be the view the finished window will give us in the end.
I’m wondering whether this project has something to do with Angles and Shadows and a little bit of physical computing. I’m also thinking of it in light of my previous works with visual references to bureaucratic material.
In the meanwhile, I’m surveying the logistics of it. It seems to be able to be done in a few hours, so perhaps it is possible to make a whole window in an exhibition opening. It seems to be simple enough, provided the wall is not a bearing wall, to do it myself. It seems that I will have to get a building permission, and I have yet no idea how, how much and how long. Other than that it seems to be not so costly to do. Perhaps it is even possible to work with my audience again. And it would be nice to do another Do It Yourself video out of it.
I ran the idea through Daniel, and his response was “I always think of windows as borders as distancing as walls because you are now aware of what is over there but can remain separate, and this time through choice.” Good. It might work well.
There are more details to be thought about. Maybe there’s a machine that helps people demolish the necessary part of the wall and so that machine can also be controllable through the internet. The paintings are like people talking about culture from a distance. Physical distance, like what theorists do, and temporal distance, like interpretation of history. The wall is simply a wall. The window is a willingness to see, or sometimes it’s a pretense to see, but not seeing anyway. Window as a construct. Only to provide view. When it’s dark inside, we are not visible from the outside. Light will come in, and that’s beneficial. but you are separated anyway. Which brings me to another question: will the window be closed (with glass) or openable, or what?
This needs more thoughts.
I hope I’ll be able to do this project soon. Gimme gimme gimme a museum wall.
