Light moves across a wall as the day passes. The shape may distort, but it's always the same, recognizable light. This photograph represents time. There is some sort of covering on the window that creates the distortion. It may be to protect the glass from the paint or cracking, but I think it was put up as a privacy screen by previous owners. The view across the street would have been the same for over a hundred years, and the light has made this trajectory thousands of times in this form and countless times before the house was here to have windows to shape the light. People have only been around to see it a fraction of the times this has occurred. I will never be able to make this image again. I chose the active framing of the window and the light on the wall to represent that we cannot see everything. Our investigations will only reveal the truths we can find. Even when we're looking at something, we can't really see all of it. We compile a composite that represents the whole object, but we only see one piece at a time. The light on the wall is obviously from a different window, but the implication is that it is the same light that is coming from this window because of its inclusion in the frame and its proximity. It's as if the light shifted a little to the left and down. This representation is intentional as I want the viewer to think about time and the slow slipping of the light along the bare wall and stripped baseboard. I want them to think of themselves as windows and the light as what they project into the world. The light is always changing even though they are always the same window. #activeframing #windowlight #naturallight #availablelight #architecture #greekrevival #restoration #before #architecturalphotography #architecturalphotographer #historic #historichomes (at West Dennis, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLH7VjOwps/?utm_medium=tumblr
