Rusu Carla

The window acts as both an obstruction and a link between the inside and the outside world. Its transparency allows one to know what happens in the other medium without trespassing or actually becoming a part of it.
For the watcher who resides outside, the view of the interior comes into focus, the subjects unaware they are being watched, thus the act gains a degrading dimension, similar to that of peeking. Knowingly committing an act of intrusion by “spying” inside, the watcher is forced to make a choice: a moral one, by interrupting the act, or an immoral one, by continuing the act. Upon making a decision, the consequences of social degradation or humiliation are inevitable.
Unlike the watcher on the outside, the insider is apparently devoid of all social penalties and faces no prosecution for doing virtually the same act. Privileged and without stigma, the one inside enjoys the prospect of “watching” morally unburdened, disregarding the fact that his act and the “peeper’s” are undifferentiated, due to the fact that the deed he is committing has been socially normalized and largely accepted.
A false dichotomy arises between the acts of looking from inside-outside and the reverse, the two being only socially different. Taking possession of a place and naming it yours does not change its physical attributes. The act in itself is the same: you watching another.

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