The Window: a portrait in a thousand parts

Below is a view of The Window art project installed as networked photographs, showing the connections across the images, subjects and themes (diversity, time, technology, velocity, beauty, movement, dance, Tarot, entanglement… etc).

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“The Window”, institutional installation view of themes branching and massing from linear spine (proposed)

The Window is a 24/7/365/1 photo project capturing life in the 21st century city. (See more of the images and ideas-behind: HERE). Above is just one of its many infinite arrangements.

Much of the art by K.I.A. is one larger work composed of smaller elements, allowing iterative presentations. Here’s an installation whose content changes according to setting and arrangement; here’s a painting whose 30 individual paintings are to be decentralized; here’s a recombinant sculpture composed from many discrete parts, and here’s an intercombinant wall installation (this same approach later arrived at by El-Anatsui).

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Battle (Ballet), from "The Window" by K.I.A.

Sidewalk soloists to internal symphonies… duo pas seul

Two people months apart, spontaneously doing the same gestures and movements as they dance…

All images in The Window are candid happenstance; the 24/7/365/1 project is about interconnections across the images.

More posts re: THE WINDOW (a 24/7/365/1 photo series):
Verticality
History Rhymes
Possible Pareidolia
Here Come the Future
Gravity/ Antigravity

Verticality (The Window Photos Pt. 9)

TL; DR: A photo poem, from zero to 1,261,161,417 feet.

An ‘ascending arrangement’ of some images selected from the meta-metropolis-mega-photo project The Window (LINK).

Earth to heaven (via influencers and window washers), and also some synchronicity — after thinking of connecting images vertically, by happenstance I came across the poem “High Windows” by Philip Larkin. The title, imagery, and the themes resonate somewhat. Here’s the last stanza from it (& all of it at bottom):

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:   
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”

So rather than words:

NOTES:
• Besides verticality, other possible future sub-groupings of shots from The Window are: gravity, velocity, vanity, precarity, ethnicity, hilarity, historicity, U-haulicity…

• I heart “the sun-comprehending glass”. The window’s job is to let light pass through

• More posts from the Window (all ephemeral moments captured from one SUBSTACK location, pls. subscribe):
Possible Pareidolia
Here Come the Future
What’s the Story?

• K.I.A. website feat. recombinant sculptures, snow collages, gen mod paintings +

• HIGH WINDOWS by Phillip Larkin:

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s   
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,   
I know this is paradise

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives—   
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide

To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if   
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,   
And thought, That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark

About hell and that, or having to hide   
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide   
Like free bloody birds. And immediately

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:   
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

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The Window: Poetic Sets

Themed groups of images from The Window: Velocity, Dance, Motion, Walking, Woman, Men, Trans, Night, Smokers, Selfies, Technology, Diversity, Equity, Beauty, History, Weddings, Dogs, Verticals, Time, U-Hauls…
Ediitoned signed archival prints: https://www.nu4ya.com/store?category=02+The+Window

The Window by K.I.A.: Every Photo a Film

New section, or themed grouping, in the ginormous 24/7/365/1 photo project The Window by K.I.A.: Section 10 - Vignettes. These images hit at a bigger story happening beyond the borders of the photo — a shooting, a protest, a wedding, a riot, Drake, and Taylor Swift (ies)... (Many — most — of the images in the project are portraits showing the diversity, velocity, hilarity, vanity, complexity, eccentricity (etc) of the modern city in the 21st century. SEE VIGNETTES HERE. (Individual and compilation images available as signed editioned prints.)

The Window by K.I.A.: compilation images

Compilation of photographs as grouped by theme into a single image.

The compilations range from two up to 60+ images. Dimensions variable and flexible — portrait, landscape, square, etc. Inquiries welcome.

Here are a few examples of the “visual poems” compilted from The Window, a 24/7/365/1 project documenting the diversity, velocity, and humanity of life at this moment.

See more of the compilations HERE (and more being added over time.)

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“ultimulticulti” (39 image compilation):

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“Views From the Six” (36 image compilation):

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“Happiness Is Motion” (aka “Wheelers and Wheelies” (6 image compilation):

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Other compilations: Gravity/Antigravity, Wraiths Below the Window, Sequences….

Possible Pareidolia

A pairing of enigmatic images of couples from the multimedia photography project The Window . Read more here at the K.I.A. art sub stack: LINK