wire glass

While walking through a museum the other day I noticed that the partition walls the art work was hanging on were build very deep as I could see from one side. Coming up to the last wall in the back of the gallery I just happened to lean around the back to see how the walls were constructed. Possibly a bit of curiosity from my many years of building studio sets. In doing so a rear window of the building was revealed to me. This structure, dates back more than 75 years and at one time was an office building but recently had been converted into a museum gallery. Everything in the gallery was modern and high tech, from the stairwell and the elevator to the suspended metal that made up the second floor. Behind one of the walls was this very old window in beautiful condition which had wire glass with a fine mesh shade over the whole window. I was intrigued by the way the light hitting the window had bright areas through which the window showed it’s unique glass and the darker areas showed more of the mesh window shade. The color of the light was a nice contrast to the black metal frame. The geometric pattern of the window frames took on an abstract feel. It seems to me that it pays to look around, for I had found this bit of history, a piece of art work hidden behind all the modern trappings of the gallery facade.