This work presents the image of an old house, a blocked window, an opening that no longer looks out onto anything. It belongs to an emerging series documenting the phenomenon of sealing the windows of abandoned houses before demolition, in order to prevent entry by the homeless and others. The photograph offers no view of what might have been seen through the window. Instead, it bears witness to a window that can no longer be seen through.

It is not a photograph of a landscape but the trace of vision cut short, sealed, interrupted—an unrealized possibility of looking. The gaze has not disappeared; it has become an image. It has become fossilized. The bars across the window are rendered superfluous, almost ironic. The mediation of the image through printing transforms it into another layer of materiality, one that underscores both the futility of the bars and the aesthetic dimension of this familiar urban landscape.