#window blind

[killyridols]

belladonna & jaborandi by michael stamm, 2018, acrylic, wax, & pigment on paper, 24 x 18 inches

[2022dirt]

Window blinds can warp or melt from concentrated sunlight.

[vintagehomecollection]

Shallow built-ins with tambour-faced sliding doors help stretch space in a tiny bathroom.

Ideas for Great Bathrooms, 1991

[prostheticknowledge]

New Dawn

Installation by United Visual Artists are window blinds that mimic ambient shade:

New Dawn is a screen-based sculpture that displays sublime light, dappling across its panels. The work responds to ideas of transactive memory, our tendency towards Apophenia as well as our problematic relationship with technology and subsequent mediated experience of the contemporary world. Carrying an ambient, cinematic quality, the emergent patterns suggest leaves falling or blowing in the wind to create. This moment of reflection recollects the paradox of Plato’s Cave, engaging a play of shadows which impairs our ability to authenticate. Isolated from its motherboard, it functions as the outsourcing of a memory, viewed  in a discordant context. It is only when one returns to the space, circling the artwork, that it’s inner workings are revealed and the illusion of absence shattered. We are lulled into its spectacle and then sharply pointed to its artificiality, reminding us of our place in contrast to the technological world but also our inherent alignment to it.

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[terracemuse]

The autumn wind is blowing.  (Nukata  c.638-710)

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Nora Schultz - Picture-Blind, 2017

[shihlun]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972

[artistmachine42]

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” ― , A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia