The windows of my drawings dreams
Well, this is something I’ve been obsessed with in Lima (amongst many other things that I’ll get into later). What in the minds’ dead end was it that leaded the US towards the basic square/rectangular shaped window, when you can have windows of like, all the other shapes? Someone explain to me the evolution of design here in Lima that made this happen. Not to mention the at times illustrative and geometrical imagery crafted into thin metal gates on doors and windows or the combination of materials used for houses, the shapes of the buildings themselves, or the attention to detail on get this — driveways! But let me focus on these windows right now. They are making me so happy. Every time I see any combination of these windows- asymmetrical, rounded, mixed edges, wrap around, inset frames, roof windows, long vertical windows, arbitrarily placed windows, angular windows, nautical windows, cute windows, haunting windows - thanks windows cause you’re making the windows of my soul fly free. These types of houses aren’t everywhere, but these attributes grace many neighborhoods and of course, it feels that in every section of Lima, the architecture has its own consciousness, traumas, hopes and dreams. Old and new mix. Sometimes it feels like the most (and only) beautiful Spanish-Colonoial-Incan-Baroque-post apocalyptic movie set I have seen in life, and I think, really, why aren’t there more movies filmed here?
The following are of some windows/ houses where the photos turned out mostly non-blurry. I’ve taken many photos despite the arrangement that I am often shooting one-handed from the backseat of a motorcycle threading through traffic. But sometimes at night, I take walks and I ‘weirdly’ (not in my opinion) take photos of peoples windows. Of course, to fully appreciate the windows, one must take in the whole environment…
