180cm W x 110cm H x 30cm D
Reclaimed windows, enamel paint
{a violent intersection} brings ideas between psychology and mathematics together, which evolved when finding a way to work with the breakages that came with the found windows. While reading a collection of essays titled ‘Counterfactual Thinking – Counterfactual Writing’ which explores this term across a field of studies, in the essay by Robyn Warhol, entitled ‘What Might Have Been Is Not What Is’, she refers to a psychological understanding of a counterfactual scenario, as bringing together conflicting situations, to gain insights into the causes of actual outcomes. [1] Using a Venn diagram as a symbol, I formed a union between the two broken windowpanes and enclosed the shattered area between an open and closed curly bracket, which are hand painted, as a sign.
[1] Warhol, R. ‘What Might Have Been Is Not What Is’ in ‘Counterfactual Thinking – Counterfactual Writing’, edited by Birke, D. Butter, M. Koppe, T. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2011, p227-239.