The world turned upside down?

I am at the Kenilworth Building for Ethan Jackson's "Polyopticon #1." It's amazing sometimes how something made out of four holes in cardboard can be so wonderful. As usual, there is something nostalgic for me that makes this piece connect with me personally. When I used to drive a truck, the sleeper compartment was separated by a vinyl/leather curtain. Someone had cut a long slit in the curtain. Often, after a nap as my partner drove, I would wake up in this stretched out dream world, the road outside with all of the cars, coating the interior of the compartment. It was, as Ethan said, "somehow more beautiful" than any capturable image, "a living image."

It was definitely one of the more comfortably imersive installations I have been too. The presentation of his documented work "16 Windows" while obviously failing to completely capture the true effect of an installation such as this, was still so beautiful in concept as to have a very strong effect on me. I wish I could have gone to that work and sat all day.

This simplicity, reality, and such a literal idea of containership as well as Jackson's wonderful awareness of his viewers and his obvious love of image and the creation of it as space were also sweet.