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Photoshoppingwindows was shown at the artist-run Galleri By The Way in Bergen, Norway. The gallery consists of 5 large storefront windows on a corner of a busy intersection downtown Bergen. The basic thesis for the show was the melding of certain qualities of cameras and shopping-windows. The project consisted of the 3 minute DVD “Seeing It Through” showing random everyday objects hurled at a glass pane – some of them breaking the glass. The second window displayed individual photographs of all the objects featured in the DVD portrayed as attractive sales items. A third window showed “Quadraesthetic Apparatus”, three 3:1 models of a Nikon F100 SLR camera each modeled on 1/4 of the original camera copied and mirrored to make a complete, doubly symmetrical body. The fourth window showed the piece “Quadraesthesia (Window)”, and the fifth window showed “Transparent”, the same image as in “Quadraestesia (Window)” printed in clear resin on clear film, only showing up as a faint shadow projected onto the backing wall of the window box.

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