Audiovisual – Motion Graphics
Editorial
Photography
From outside
to my windows
Windows: Part 2
After looking at other people’s windows, a rather amusing experiment was to observe my own windows from the outside, expanding the surveyance even further. Situated on the fourteenth floor of a high building near Chaoyang North Road, my windows faced west and north, most of them measuring 1.35 meters in height, except for those on the bedroom’s closed balcony, which were bay windows replacing the wall. From outside, these ones stood out with their white frames and their broken wooden bars on the left; the bathroom window also differed from others with its mosquito net pulled up; while my northern windows had Christmas stickers, facilitating their identification from across the street.
Alper Yesiltas' window project.
Series of photos capturing my own windows from different points of view.
While researching, I recalled that the photographer Alper Yesiltas (2017) used to capture a window that faced his room over twelve years (2017), and even if it wasn’t his own; one suddenly perceives it as a living entity. We can see its white lace curtain, its wall changing colours from snowy to sunny days, and how the passage of time gradually transforms the window until it is eventually dismantled, disappearing much like life itself when one passes away. This active contemplation of the same window over time shows a rare perseverance in representing the same element until it becomes an obsession. In my photographs, I opted to examine my windows from varying distances and angles, rather than relying on a single frame of reference, and I even asked two neighbours to take them in picture from outside, after giving instructions on how to recognise them. Sharing my exact location with others momentarily diminished my sense of privacy.
