Window

Window: meaning

A window frames a view, showing some things and excluding others. Another frame may qualify a first impression.

Symbols and details in the image

Notice a window frame divided by inner lines. Which detail catches your attention first? Explore the image and connect that detail with your question: gestures, shapes and contrasts open up new associations.

Window: interpretation

Which part of a situation is missing from the story you use to explain it?

A reading step by step

Explore the three positions of Symbolic crystal ball with this example. Place the images in the stated order and follow each row’s ideas. Then connect the three themes: how does the perspective change from one position to the next?

• First element · Window: A window frames a view, showing some things and excluding others.
• Second element · Bridge: A bridge connects two places that remain distinct.
• Third element · Seed: A seed suggests a small beginning and its conditions.

History and inspiration

Twelve everyday motifs form a visual vocabulary of paths, support and perspectives. The mountain brings effort into focus; the window offers another way of seeing. Each image finds its place through your question, the other figures and its position in the reading.