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Cosmo
Peter G Hoffman - Glass/Corner, 2014
Artist’s statement:
“A winter can be so hard and so cold. You’d do anything to find some semblance of warmth between the snow-filled wind gusts scraping the back of your neck.
You develop a routine to rely on for some of the coldest, worst winter days. Wake up. Work out. Work. Get coffee in town. Work more. Stare out the window. Get distracted. Try to work again - but stare instead. Stare and can’t help but overhear the insurance salesmen try to convince the young couple that they just might lose their spouse soon. Or the kids in their first year of college engrossed in the Bible and then gossiping about their classmates that live down the hall. Maybe you’re going to hear some retirees discussing their grandchildren or see a disheveled father meeting up with his equally disheveled son for the first time in months, actually, it sounds like a year. There’s an addict coming in and out, letting all the cold air in begging for change telling them everyone his last week in town before he moves back to Portland. Sometimes you hear the pyramid scam salesmen who’s probably just trying to keep his family afloat, albeit at the expense of the 21 year-old that is drowning in his suit. He tells people they can make thousand and thousands of dollars, like an ad you would see painted on a plastic sign at a stoplight or in the comments section of an internet news article, but someone is actually listening.
But that’s all in the background. In front of you - the window. You look at the same window every time, but it changes. Ice crystals morph size and shape, grow and fade with the sub-zero temperatures. Some days are warm enough for dew instead. Most days you can’t see through the window, you only get shapes and motion. When evening comes the window changes colors with the cars and store lights outside. It becomes a game. How many different ways can this window look? Can I break through it to the outside and see what is there?”
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