Windows to a landscape: point of origin

Author name: Diya Seepaul

Instagram account/s: @seepaul_arch @lt_ranch_space

At the beginning of this experiment I knew I was interested in the subject of “the window” and it’s new meaning post lockdown/quarantine in conversation with @lt_ranch_space during the ranch20 session . I found the window to be such an ordinary thing that we took for granted but during this period had taken on a completely different meaning. It was central to my everyday routine and was in a way my connection to the outside world. To take it further I asked around thirty people if I could have a photograph of their window for this test. From doing so, two things were apparent: you could see the outside landscape and the second was the interior like two parts to a story.

I used the window as a lens of a camera to capture my view and the light within. I converted my room into a pinhole camera with the intention of placing photographic strips of paper around the mapped out space so it would paint a picture of the light movement within.

As a result of this project I believe the “window” could be seen as our connection to the outside landscape and is the thing that links us together – and within this “connection” a strange intangible space is formed during these moments of isolation.

overall drawing mapping out the windows used, tests and research taken to show the relationship between user and space.

Point of origin- light source to immediate space

Scan of sketch planning out arrangement and the light installation

Sample contact sheet of photographic paper showing where the light has moved within the room.

Photographic still from stop motion animation. Showing the projection in motion.