Window Still Life: At The Edge of Public and Private

We spend our lives staring out of windows. They are arguably the most important feature of a house. Nobody wants to live in a home without windows; it would be depressing, enclosed and oppressive.  We arrange each room in a house around them, accent them with various curtains and drapery. They are the connection between our internal lives and the world outside. They are the edge of two realms; where private meets public. For this project, I tried to capture both sides of the window; the internal and external. When someone looks out their window, they see the same landscape everyday, with regards to variation of season and the general activities of the population. They look through their window and see the outside world. However, on the other side of the window, people are left with endless mysteries. Behind closed doors, the lives of people within their homes are relatively private. We have curtains to close out the general public, so nobody can see inside our homes if we don't want them to. These photos capture the perspective of a person looking at the outside world from the within the safety of their private homes. There are hints of private life revealed within the interior spaces of the window, while outside exists almost as a completely separate world.

This project was largely inspired by the painter Ben Aronson, specifically his painting "Manhattan, 2am" which I viewed and fell in love with for the first time last year at a gallery in Boston.