Taking Part: 28 days

The noticeboard lightbox at the Arnulf-Klett-Passage at Stuttgart railway station has three sides around a support column, and I’ve ‘disguised’ all three sides as windows.

The two smaller ‘windows’ give a view from the outside, while the larger window gives a view from the inside, ‘outside’ being the forest in winter. It was like a room.

Each window had a thin white curtain that seemed to give a view of the ‘room’ inside. I placed a small plant from my own windowsill, an ashtray, a cup of coffee, an inward-facing photo frame (yes, there was no angle from which one could see the photographs inside), a lit candlestick, and a wooden stick on the ‘windowsill.’

From time to time during the month of the exhibition, I added or replaced things. For example, the ashtray was stuffed with cigarette butts every few days; the exhibition took place in February, and I put in a Valentine’s Day rose and a love letter folded into a ‘thousand paper cranes’, a real love letter; and by the end of the exhibition, on 28 February, the forgotten cup of coffee was already full of mould. This ‘someone’s’ February was so uneventful that I wondered if anyone at this busy railway station would ever find this boring daily story.