15 September 2009

Inside (outside?) looking on

This view of an old-fashioned office - a bank? insurance? - is on my "enigmatic" page of the Imagined Interiors collection book. I find it fascinating ... perhaps because it brings to mind those addresses on letters we wrote to penpals as teenagers - name, street, city, province, country, North America, The Earth, The Solar System, The Galaxy, The Cosmos... The office workers are tiny cogs in the wheel of industry, of the life of the nation, of the world -- yet each has a personal cosmos that is invisible in this picture.And, bouncing off that huge interior of a building, this one - the title is Sears I and it's by Katherine Westerhout - a digitised photograph woven into a tapestry 7 ft by 9 ft.
It asks all sorts of questions. As does this abandonned library in Ukraine -

1 comment:

beatrice De said...

What a pitty !

BĂ©atrice.