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HANNAH SMITH ALLEN

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Artist Book in Process | Every Window in My House | Spring 2020 (Covid-19)

On March 15th, my family and I left Brooklyn, New York, to quarantine in our home in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Initially, I started to photograph "Every Window in My House" in order to give myself purpose and to refocus my energy on light and color, rather than the nightly news. For the past ten years, my artwork has focused on ideas of war and nationhood, but this, sometimes daily sometimes weekly, ritual of photographing my windows has reminded me of the power of photography to uncover extraordinary meaning in seemingly ordinary objects, gestures, or routines. This reminder has been a small gift in an otherwise bleak landscape.

 

View fullsize Every window in my house window 7 (bedroom window 2, 6am)
View fullsize “Every window in my house, window 8 (kitchen window 2, morning light)
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 10 (Studio Window 2, Overcast)
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 14 (Living Room Window 3, Saturday Afternoon and heading into week number eight)
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 2
View fullsize Week 6: Kitchen, Every Window in My House, Window 6
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 3 (Bathroom reshoot with Sonja's shade)
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 9 (Living Room 1, afternoon light)
View fullsize Every Window in My House, Window 15 (school from bed)”
View fullsize Every Window in My House (Brooklyn 3 months later)
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