Explained across four discrete constituents: Essence, Perspective, Mood, and Color.

I have always been

fascinated by windows

since I was little.

Staring out into

endless possibility.

Without any limits.

Windows, Designing Windows,

Changing reality in

a new creative.

A passage to what

is wanting and needing us.

Knowledge, play, freedom.

Reflecting, looking,

infinite replication.

Waiting to engage.

Tilting and leaning.

Reaching, touching, and feeling.

Reimagining.

I take pictures so

I don't have to be in them.

Yet, I'm always there.

Highlighting myself

changes the way I see me.

Looking through windows.

Creating windows

behind personal windows.

Still seeing myself.

Looking at, through screens

just another window here.

Where is their escape?

Reflections on the

windows of a birthing sun.

What are you seeing?

I look through the sea

water to see another.

What are you seeing?

Any framed space can be

a window to something else.

What are you seeing?

Work spaces can be

fun spaces if we only...

What are you seeing?

Possibility

beyond the earthly senses.

What are you seeing?

Clemson has changed me

by showing different windows.

I see different.

See the possible

beyond the keyhole, our eyes.

I see different.

Colors make life more

vibrant although form a lens.

I see different.

Windows are shifting

perspectives we see this now.

I see different.

Purple and orange

has shown me a new future.

I see different.

After watching all the videos I created this semester and swiped through all the pictures I took, I was pleasantly surprised to find that windows—both the architectural structure and the digital frame—were a repeating signifier. When I discovered this, I took out a pad and pencil and started to free write to see why they were so significant. Words such as “possibility,” “restraint,” “barriers,” and “altered reality” instantly came to mind with vivid representations of each, which I tried to capture in this project.

One aspect of my research, as well as a personal interest since I was younger, is the idea of possibility. With possibility we find something within ourselves, whether that be creativity or an inner strength that we couldn’t feel or articulate previously. As a gamer, I’ve always engaged in escapism through my role-playing games, but also through the understanding of multiple outcomes and a plentitude of possibility in every action. I saw this through the window on my rear-projection television, through my eyes (to include a cliché), or even through the large bay windows in my family room where I would write, read, watch television, or play games. If we change our perspective, we can see something different through the changing of framing, reimagining, or even the reflections and alternations glass and finishes create on an image. With image altering software, the possibilities are truly limitless in the hands of someone that understands the intricate wonderings of the possible.

When we think of invention and creation, we don’t often think of restraint as a positive, but if you think of it as a guiding heuristic and principle, it can focus your thoughts on a trajectory. Windows are often seen as a restraint, whether it is part of architecture putting restraints on the outside climate or even level design which creates a barrier and limits actions. Although they restrain, they are a magnifying aspect that creates a hyper-focus. Interacting with that restraint, we can perceive touching and reaching out into the beyond without harm. We are given an illusion of freedom while being protected by our own creations which is what makes physical and digital windows so performative.

When I was younger, I also saw windows as a barrier that can be traversed in a way that altered my reality. I learned at a young age that if you think hard enough, you can see what you want to see using your imagination. I would often look outside my bedroom window and picture planes flying overhead, monsters in the streets, and people using magic, but I was always protected behind my window which acted as a barrier between reality and my altered reality beyond. Windows were vastly important to my creativity and my ability to look beyond the current moment and wee the possible beyond.

Still, to this day, when I am trying to think, I find myself looking out a window, often not even realizing the tendency. This project, and this class by extension, has shown me the full potential of windows and my influence on them, both physically and digitally. If we look beyond the physical structure, we can see the importance of framing, barriers, and the potential inherent in them.