Window, Ft. Christmas, FL 2012
Over the years I have been photographically fascinated with doors and windows. Looking at my entire body of work one will see many window and door images. While most of these photographs have signs or at least words in them, there are still a number of times where the sign is framed within a window or a door. Sometimes, like the photo above, I find something interesting in just the door or a window. Looking at this image it might be assumed that there is a special interest in texture. It is there to be sure. However, there is something more. Doors and windows allow one to travel from one plane of existence to another. When either looking into or out of a door or window there is a feel that there is something going on, on the other side. What can be seen from either side will often ask more questions than they answer. There can be mystery!
There is also a pleasing way that the shape of a door and or a window will create a frame within the composition. There is formalism to the way that the series of rectangles and squares work within a space. Anyone familiar with the French painter Piet Mondrian will see something of his work in a space that is visually divided with windows and doors. While Mondrian deals with issues of abstraction, when we look at a window the impact of the image is the formal structure, however in the image of a window or a door there is the added dimension of what lays beyond. My door and window images are often very simple. I believe the simpler they are the more they can say. It may seem like a contradiction in terms, but I believe that in simplicity there is complexity. Sit back, look and enjoy.
RICK LANG photography 