Museum of Art Windows, North Side
The north facing windows establish a rhythm of narrow niches running parallel to the movement of pedestrians along a major walkway across campus. My design for the windows in this facade describes a line of figures making its way toward the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology along that path. Their movements are constrained by intermittent traffic cones of delicate Roman glass found in Egypt...
Museum of Art Windows, North Side
The north facing windows establish a rhythm of narrow niches running parallel to the movement of pedestrians along a major walkway across campus. My design for the windows in this facade describes a line of figures making its way toward the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology along that path. Their movements are constrained by intermittent traffic cones of delicate Roman glass found in Egypt.
A procession of migrants measures this passageway, burdened for their journey. They march back across the street to the Kelsey, carrying booty from their sojourn at UMMA, items pillaged from those collections that are in short supply in the lands of the antique where they come from. Mostly hands. Towers transmit indecipherable messages from one side of the divide to the other.
Herders move through architectural fantasies and ruins. A stairway landing visible through the semi-opaque glass wall of the museum offers a platform for transmission relay. Beneath the stairs Aphrodite showers in her mobile basin. Approaching the street at the front of the march is Nydia, the blind flower girl of Pompeii. Rolling on her longboard, guided by her cupped ear, she leads her companions across the traffic to another volcanic eruption in progress at the Kelsey.
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