{"id":4099,"date":"2012-07-15T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2014-12-14T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:35:40","slug":"framing-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/framing-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4100\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-window-wall.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4100\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4100\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-window-wall\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-window-wall.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-window-wall.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-window-wall.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window Wall, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A frame makes a picture. \u00a0A frame that is around nothing makes something of that nothing. \u00a0Most people probably never look out a window with no view, but if you take the frame&#8217;s cue and view this brick wall as a view, it is a rather intense study in texture and light.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always found something compelling in &#8220;empty&#8221; frames. \u00a0Here are a few of them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4110\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-now-playing.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4110\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4110\" title=\"fredhatt-2002-now-playing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-now-playing.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-now-playing.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-now-playing.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now Showing, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An empty frame is a memento mori, a reminder of mortality, a window on nothingness that tells us there was once something where now there is nothing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4132\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-red-on-blue.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4132\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-red-on-blue\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-red-on-blue.jpg?resize=600%2C402\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-red-on-blue.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-red-on-blue.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red on Blue, 2009, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A big red box frames something &#8211; maybe a keyhole? &#8211; and, combined with shadows from a scaffold, makes an abstract painting of a blank blue wall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4119\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-dots.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4119\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4119\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-dots\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-dots.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-dots.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-dots.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dots, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here was once a fine locking glass poster case. \u00a0Then it became a community bulletin board. \u00a0Then someone pulled down the bulletins, leaving behind scraps of tape. \u00a0Now it is a sad cabinet of glass, empty inside and marred outside. \u00a0Or you can look at it as a jaunty composition of colored dots and tape on a transparent surface.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4101\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-boutique.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4101\" title=\"fredhatt-2004-boutique\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-boutique.jpg?resize=600%2C399\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-boutique.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-boutique.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boutique, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This storefront once attracted window shoppers with provocatively posed mannequins in garish urban fashions. \u00a0A sagging tarp, blue and dusty, hangs there as the flag of failure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4111\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-billboard-support.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4111\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4111\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-billboard-support\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-billboard-support.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-billboard-support.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-billboard-support.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billboard Support, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A vivid golden sculpture rising into the gray sky is so much more appealing than would be another commercial message.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4102\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-caution-no-floor.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4102\" title=\"fredhatt-2004-caution-no-floor\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-caution-no-floor.jpg?resize=600%2C399\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-caution-no-floor.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2004-caution-no-floor.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caution No Floor, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everything has been done to make this once inviting store entrance forbidding: \u00a0paint splattered on the inside of the glass, a steel gate, caution tape, and a spray-painted sign that says &#8220;Caution No Floor&#8221;. \u00a0Here is the gate to hell, it would appear.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4112\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-exit-ACE.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4112\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4112\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-exit-ACE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-exit-ACE.jpg?resize=600%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-exit-ACE.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-exit-ACE.jpg?resize=300%2C240 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exit ACE. 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Peel, scrape, erase &#8211; all but a remnant of a baby&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4120\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-glass-frame.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4120\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-glass-frame\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-glass-frame.jpg?resize=400%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-glass-frame.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-glass-frame.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass Frame, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a little vitrine on a Subway platform where the Transit Authority posts notifications to commuters. \u00a0Someone tagged the glass with some clearish substance, creating a piece of abstract expressionism in subtle tones of translucency on transparency, casting faint shadows on a dully reflective aluminum back plate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4103\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-now-serving.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4103\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-now-serving\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-now-serving.jpg?resize=399%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-now-serving.jpg?w=399 399w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-now-serving.jpg?resize=199%2C300 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now Serving Soup!, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This frame was not an empty frame until the clumping snow made it so. \u00a0You can still read the message &#8220;Now Serving Soup!&#8221; &#8211; just what you&#8217;d want on a blizzardy day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4121\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-chalked-plates.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4121\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-chalked-plates\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-chalked-plates.jpg?resize=600%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-chalked-plates.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-chalked-plates.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chalked Plates, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some kids with street chalk clearly saw this textured steel access plate as a frame, and decided to fill it in with colors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4122\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-wet-cardboard.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4122\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-wet-cardboard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-wet-cardboard.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-wet-cardboard.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-wet-cardboard.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wet Cardboard, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a double frame made of an upside-down box spring and a piece of blue-edged cardboard that maybe used to be behind a mirror or a picture. \u00a0In its demise, this piece of cardboard has finally become a picture itself, as the moisture has stained it with something that looks like a misty watercolor painting of mountains. \u00a0The hard-edged multiple framing really emphasizes the pictorial quality of the cardboard, as a fancy inset double mat might enhance a soft picture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4104\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-triptych.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4104\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4104\" title=\"fredhatt-2005-triptych\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-triptych.jpg?resize=600%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-triptych.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2005-triptych.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triptych, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A triple window of water-stained board becomes a holy triptych. <em>\u00a0&#8220;And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. \u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And God called the firmament Heaven. \u00a0And the evening and the morning were the second day. \u00a0And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. \u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. \u00a0And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. \u00a0And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. \u00a0And the evening and the morning were the third day.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4123\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-red-rectangle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4123\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-red-rectangle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-red-rectangle.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-red-rectangle.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-red-rectangle.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Rectangle, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Will humanity one day emulate and extend the act of creation, seeding life on Mars or other planets? \u00a0Or will we destroy ourselves in the fire of our own consumptiveness?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4114\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-blinds.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4114\" title=\"fredhatt-2002-blinds\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-blinds.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-blinds.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-blinds.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blinds, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Someone who likes to hide in shadows got a building made for putting things on display, and so they put their depression and decay on display.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4124\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-rectangles-and-diagonals.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4124\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-rectangles-and-diagonals\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-rectangles-and-diagonals.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-rectangles-and-diagonals.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-rectangles-and-diagonals.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rectangles and Diagonals, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The paper in these windows, raked with shadows from an awning frame, looks like a silken kimono decorated with delicate diagonal stripes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4126\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-you-us-we-now1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4126\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-you-us-we-now\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-you-us-we-now1.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-you-us-we-now1.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-you-us-we-now1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You Us We Now, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This scraped poster has remnants that suggest a landscape, with brown below and blue above. \u00a0The black shapes in the lower left seem to be figures sitting in the landscape.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4115\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-blue-rectangle.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4115\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4115\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-blue-rectangle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-blue-rectangle.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-blue-rectangle.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-blue-rectangle.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Rectangle, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here on a plywood fence the artistic battle between figuration and abstraction is being waged.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4127\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-white-on-black.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4127\" title=\"fredhatt-2003-white-on-black\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-white-on-black.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-white-on-black.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-white-on-black.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2003-white-on-black.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White on Black, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I almost think I can read a message in this remnant in poster paste, but it&#8217;s illegible, a distorted echo, a white shadow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4106\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2006-stone.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4106\" title=\"fredhatt-2006-stone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2006-stone.jpg?resize=600%2C402\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2006-stone.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2006-stone.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stone, 2006, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An artificial texture reminiscent of coral, surrounded in a bold rectilinear frame, marks this stone. \u00a0From a distance, it&#8217;s just a random pattern, like camouflage, but looked at closely it has a great writhing energy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4131\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-empty-display.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4131\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-empty-display\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-empty-display.jpg?resize=600%2C337\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-empty-display.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-empty-display.jpg?resize=300%2C168 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty Display, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This storefront window between displays is the stage of a shabby rundown theater in an entertainment district the cool people no longer frequent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_4128\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-antidepressant.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4128\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-antidepressant\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-antidepressant.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-antidepressant.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-antidepressant.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antidepressant, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think maybe this window is supposed to be a conceptual art installation, but it doesn&#8217;t look much different from the definitely unintentional depressing empty windows elsewhere in this post. \u00a0I like how the neon sign casts its shadow on the plywood &#8211; the shadow of light. \u00a0This was a storefront window in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. \u00a0The artist is unknown to me &#8211; let me know if you know.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4108\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2008-dusty-window-with-rubber-cement.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4108\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4108\" title=\"fredhatt-2008-dusty-window-with-rubber-cement\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2008-dusty-window-with-rubber-cement.jpg?resize=400%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2008-dusty-window-with-rubber-cement.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2008-dusty-window-with-rubber-cement.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dusty Window with Rubber Cement, 2008, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This dusty window depicts an encounter between a rather rigid character whose plaid slacks are seen in the lower left pane, and an angel of anunciation, descending from heaven in the middle upper frame.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4129\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-restaurant.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4129\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-restaurant\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-restaurant.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-restaurant.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2001-restaurant.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restaurant, 2001, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paper is often used to block the windows of defunct businesses. \u00a0Fallen paper, rumpled and stained behind the glass, is an emblem of fragility and collapse, but the rest of the world goes on, and that outside beauty is also seen in the glass, in reflection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4116\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-van-windows.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4116\" title=\"fredhatt-2002-van-windows\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-van-windows.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-van-windows.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2002-van-windows.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Windows, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some kind of film has been applied inside these van windows to block the interior from outside peering. \u00a0The sun (?) has caused this fascinating pattern of cracks, both dark and light, to appear in the film. \u00a0It reminds me of the tessellation of a dried lake bed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4117\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2012-pink-window.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4117\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4117\" title=\"fredhatt-2012-pink-window\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2012-pink-window.jpg?resize=480%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2012-pink-window.jpg?w=480 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2012-pink-window.jpg?resize=240%2C300 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Window, 2012, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notice how much more cheerful satiny pink fabric is in a covered display window, compared with the dusty blinds, tarps, or collapsing paper seen in other images of this post. \u00a0But it doesn&#8217;t completely overcome the depressing aspect of a shrouded display case. \u00a0If the window showed us a colorful pi\u00f1ata donkey, or a tin man made of stovepipe, with the pink fabric behind, that would liven it up nicely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4130\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-window.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4130\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-window\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-window.jpg?resize=550%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-window.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-window.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2010-window.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think this one may be a bathroom window. \u00a0The glass is frosted and there seem to be little shelves and a towel up against the window. \u00a0The frames always make me see these empty windows as abstract or minimalist compositions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4109\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-governors-island-window.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4109\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4109\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-governors-island-window\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-governors-island-window.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-governors-island-window.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2009-governors-island-window.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governors Island Window, 2009, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a view looking out from a window by the waterfront on New York&#8217;s Governors Island. \u00a0The simplicity of this view, with tree branches in front of silvery water, is another lovely minimalist composition, made so by its frame.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4118\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-niche.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4118\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-niche\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-niche.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-niche.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fredhatt-2011-niche.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niche, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Something &#8211; a bust or a plaque, perhaps, surely once occupied this niche flanked by cornucopias and wreathed with ornate floral decorations. \u00a0Now it is a beautiful monument to the mystery of the void. \u00a0The gaps are where imagination comes to life, where memory and potential coexist. \u00a0Sometimes our world is overfilled with stuff and messages and sensations. \u00a0I value the absences, the empty spaces, the shells left behind by things that are gone. \u00a0The frame around emptiness says here is art, contemplate this. \u00a0And nothing rewards contemplation as much as does no thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frame makes a picture. \u00a0A frame that is around nothing makes something of that nothing. \u00a0Most people probably never look out a window with no view, but if you take the frame&#8217;s cue and view this brick wall as a view, it is a rather intense study in texture and light. 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