We visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and found this lovely little village...
...Rachel Whiteread has been collecting dollhouses for 20 years or so and they are displayed grouped in the dark with lights in the little windows...
...and climbing up hills..
...you feel like a voyeur peeking in the windows...
...but no one was in the houses...it was an enchanting exhibit..
...after taking these pictures a guard told me no photos!
"Village...simultaneously encourages and thwarts voyeurism, inviting viewers to peer into one empty room after another. Eventually it turns the tables: the illuminated windows become hundreds of Lilliputian eyes."
—The New York Times
You can find her at the MFA here.
4 comments:
Ohh! I have chills.
First, I love miniatures. Second, I love looking in windows at night. Third, the images of the dark and light are gorgeous. Glad you sneaked them pitturs.
they look real ~ you really did a super job with these images and I really enjoyed my trip to this exhibit thru your lens!
Ruth - Seeing this exhibit really got me wanting to start a collection of doll houses!.. but the room they would take up..oh and I love looking in windows at night too...
Elk - When you first entered the darkened exhibit it really does look like real houses piled up on a hillside...I got the pictures by putting my camera on the floor or leaning against a column...no tripod obviously or they would have caught me sooner!
Thank you for your kind comments..
lucky you to have gotten them in before the guard caught you! these are very neat!
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