Stepping Up

 I love visiting colleges. Their design can be so beautiful and weird all in one package. Like a time capsule with competing parts added who knows when. I found these stairs visually difficult to navigate given “the mirror” image presented outside. One set is an interior stairway to a dining center, the other is an outdoor bypass stairway at a different angle and tread depth. It’s fascinating how very subtle visual disruptions can be inadvertently added that can subtract from an experience. I wonder if I would have noticed if the stairs had been more similar?

 



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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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