RM: Yeah. Let me see. I was talking about the idea in art history of the picture plane as a window.
RM: Right.
RM: And I think the thing I was saying was that a window is always, also, a mirror.
RM: Always?
RM: Usually. When you look through a window, you often see yourself, your silhouette. I’ve always been interested in the world seen through windows – especially the world seen in passing, when you’re driving by, or when you’re seeing it from a train.
RM: Or a plane.
RM: Of course.
RM: There’s something sort of primal about it.
RM: Yeah. Being in a car, when you’re a kid, on the way to the mall, or on a road trip maybe, your face pressed up against the glass. Everything seems available. In a way it is and in a way it isn’t. In a moment you’ll have driven past. And anyway, you’re on the inside, and there’s that pane of glass between you and everything out there.
RM: And there’s your silhouette.
RM: And I suppose for me that’s a metaphor.
RM: For?
RM: The way self-consciousness interferes with your perception of the world. The way you get in your own way.

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