The window drawings, 2005 to 2008, are a series of over fifty drawings. They developed from eye drawings I completed in 2001. Like ancient peoples, I see the eye as the “window of the soul”. The eye and window are analogous to one another. Windows can be seen as the eyes of a house. The window drawings were developed from photographs I took in my travels and through research. Charles Baudelaire said, “A man looking out of an open window never sees as much as the same man looking directly at a closed window. There is no object more deeply mysterious, no object more pregnant with suggestion, more insidiously sinister, in short more truly dazzling than a window lit up from within by even a single candle. What we can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what we can perceive taking place behind a pane of window glass. In that pit, in that blackness or brightness, life is being lived, life is suffering, life is dreaming…”

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