I just want to talk about this apartment. It is 1930's; a bit shabby. Let's say, a bit run down. Sash windows with (f*ing idiots) broken sash cords that are broken. Paint cracked and peeling. BUT. But this: There's no place in it where you can't see at least two doors. /2
Most places, 3. Including passageways 4. And including any wondering eye line, 5. How the hell do you build a place a small apartment, where where ever you stand, your eye wonders off to a new thing to do? /3
Whoever did this was a genius. I've visited adjoining apartments, and they are shit The whole complex was built to create this: optical illusion; eye-line trap of enticement; microcosm of the world. /4
It is a work of architectural art, that I am blessed to live in, so briefly, and then I, and then it, will be gone. But some artist, whoever it was, and for however long, built it for people to live in, for a moment in time, as a perfect home. And I haven't mentioned the light...
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