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Windows: my sister Claudia looking out Dad’s window, Nell’s house in Byron Bay, Ivy smoking in the courtyard accessible only from my window and the window in the kitchen (there’s no door), Ivy and Michael through my bedroom window, window with a plant growing inside it in our kitchen, my sister and my grandmother cooking together at my Oma’s house, plants outside Michael’s bedroom & blue stained glass, my bedroom in the afternoon, sunny windows at Ruby’s house in North Carlton, triptych of days spent in bed with Ivy and Michael, Hannah’s bedroom, windows through windows for our light-well, my Mum’s house in Thornbury, my brother’s childhood bedroom, lights reflecting on the window at night, view from my old studio, the art ‘prep room’ where Haley used to gaze out the window, my sister’s bedroom, the view from Dot’s sky rise apartment, distraction-by-windows at the doctor’s office, Darren & Kylie’s office & the window that is sunny every afternoon except the one day that I took this

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photo on, view of the icy sea in Göteborg Sweden, rain staining the concrete wall outside our window, Ivy sitting in the windowsill, Andrew’s kitchen and dew drop windows, Tahlia’s room overlooking Sydney road, Cath’s entire house has nice windows with coloured stained glass, Frida’s bedroom with the toys of an 8 year old- lanterns and mobiles obscuring the window, small window in the attic, winter sun through open windows in Abbotsford, gallery semi-circles at C3 contemporary art space, on the train from North Richmond to Flinders Street, circular windows in the Lenton Parr library, on the train with Michael in the alps of the Pyrénées, hitch-hiking across the border from France & the view out the window, mountain view from bed in Andorra, birch trees looking out of my brother’s window of his room in Germany, Johnno making a cup of tea in front of a fern filled window in Foster, decorative windows of the Nicholas building in Melbourne, various windows of various rooms of the VCA.

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Sophie Rose Cassar, 2014