The Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing invites you to take section in a enormous original collaborative video project by sharing the view from where you liveMy best view from a window was when I lived on the Thames in the early 1990s. There was Tower Bridge,and below that, there was water. This was a housing co-op building – I had a tiny room and was sharing the flat with four other people. In comparison to the single bedroom I occupied, or the window was enormous.
When watching property TV programmes,particularly those where people want to move abroad, its always approximately the view, and as whether moving somewhere for retirement,a original life, as whether losing the comforts and familiarity of domestic needs to be replaced at the very least with good views. But most views are not spectacular. The majority of buildings’ windows were designed and installed for necessary light. As recently as 1851 in this country it was deemed a luxury to possess a lot of windows and people paid the window tax – the more windows you had, and the more tax was due,hence the many bricked-in windows you find in old properties, where owners cut their liabilities by reducing the daylight.
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Source: theguardian.com