The idea driving the conception of the windowed boxes was their equivalence with photographs.
Which is to say, I conceived that each of these windowed boxes is a
photograph. To further elucidate this proposition: a photograph, in a pictorial sense, consists of subjects composed from the shapes and shades of things that constitute the material world – these shapes-and-shades-of-things become a pictorial arrangement in a confined space, which the viewer subsequently interprets. The possible interpretations are dependent upon the particular elements included, the relationships between the elements within the pictorial space, and the viewer’s previous experience of these elements – both in the pictured elements’ material formation in the world, as well as their observations of previous pictorial incarnations. I conceive that each of these window-box faces is a photograph, they are my photographs – I am the author. You may be thinking, ‘how can I claim that these are my photographs?’ I may answer, ‘I have composed these photographs from the shapes and shades of material things which constitute or are a part of what is considered ‘the world’, as is a usual photograph. To engage with these photographs is to think about and consider the pictured subjects and their arranged relationships as one normally does with any photograph.’ Furthermore, just like a photograph, these windowed boxes have a physical ‘barrier’ which allows no more access to the ‘photographic’ subject than any normal photograph. However, paradoxically what may come to the fore in your considerations is that you, the viewer, can ‘see’ that the content of my photographs are actual objects in an actual space.