Law Offices Elmira
by Steven Richman
Title
Law Offices Elmira
Artist
Steven Richman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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June 16th, 2013
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Sandy Tolman
There is an almost sterile and static precision to the exact placement of the windows offset by the ravages of time and wear and vivid patinas. Here the continuum of matching windows outlines beautiful bones of duplicate perfection but sketches in the details with a different brush for each window - each window bearing different scrapes or shattered panes, boarded sections, obscured contents or crumbling paint. All is pale yellow painted wall, with bits of muted brick showing through, unreflective gray windows and brown wood - broken by one small segment of unfaded cobalt blue panel filling part of an empty window pane. Almost incongruous, the stenciled letters on one window form the words "Law Offices" in an amost cream color similar to that painted on the wall. All else is window, wall or wooden boards - haunted by almost visible ghosts of clean precision and flawless productivity predating these ravages. The matching perfection of these windows show through in lovely pattern - transformed by wear and tear and neglect and minor destruction.