What You See out Your Window Is a Sculpture

We have a sculpture out each window--not just a privacy fence, a wall, a cityscape, a landscape. The topography of a major city is, like mountains and trees and rocks, not just what it is made up of, but is a massive sculpture, forming the space. 

One of my favorite sculptors, Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) said: "All my sculpture comes out of landscape,” and, "I'm sick of sculptures in galleries & photos with flat backgrounds... no sculpture really lives until it goes back to the landscape, the trees, air & clouds." She shaped space, carved out, created mass and stillness and significant spaces within the mass of a piece. 

If you’re looking out your window, again (and again and again), look again. If you’re looking at a neighborhood, a building, a roof, a wall, your neighbor’s trashcans, a tremendous cityscape, a suburb, empty fields, wooded forests, water...Look again. Look at the empty spaces, the spaces that appear empty because of distance, the spaces between and the spaces carved out. 

Enjoy the view.