Window Six, Perspective Box for Wenzel Jamnitzer

Six Stories_wood box on pedestal, striped cloth

Six Stories_view of building with semicircular silver roof windows

Six Stories_window with table and bird taxidermy skeleton

Six Stories_window with cabinet and drawers spread around floor

Six Stories_window with three pedestals hanging crowns squirrels

Six Stories_two pedestals squirrels running up tree limb

Six Stories_red trunk on wheels, bird cage, chickens

Window Six, Perspective Box for Wenzel Jamnitzer

64" high x 24.5" wide x 29" deep

2012

wood, cast iron, bronze, inkjet prints, glass, silk

The perspective illusion box in window six was inspired by examples of peep show boxes from the Victorian period. The illusion is housed in the interior of a victrola with a viewing port cut into the front. Light enters the box through a ground glass pane in the top section of the box.

The interior walls are lined with prints from Vreedeman de Vries' treatise on architectural perspective, published in the mid-1500s. A mirror on the back inside of the box makes the interior space look impossibly long.

mirror illusions