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Nora Wendl, Glass House (Kitchen), 2013. 36 x 24” C-print
I am deeply indebted to the organisers of the Coast Time residency on the Oregon coast for the generous gift of time and space to create new work. Deepest thanks to the Newberry Library, Chicago and to Paul Galloway at the Museum of Modern Art for their generous assistance, and to the organisers of Writingplace at Delft University where this work was first presented. My colleagues and students at Portland State University have enriched these ideas through conversations and seminars. My dear friend, colleague and teacher Mitchell Squire was the first to critique the photographs and through many conversations, helped me unbury their meaning. Thanks are overdue to Charlie Masterson, who led me to the house.
1 Dr Edith Farnsworth took Mies on site visits as early as 1945, visited his design office in Chicago frequently, drove the architect and his apprentices and students to the house frequently during construction (1949-50) – in other words, her engagement in the process was quite active, more than the Blessing photographs of the construction might otherwise indicate. For more, see: Alice T. Friedman, ‘People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson’, in Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007 2 Farnsworth, Edith. Newberry Library Midwest MS Farnsworth Box 2 Folder 34. 3 ibid.
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