Figure 1 – The glass wall, Highfield Hall and Gardens, Falmouth, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2016.

There is the old adage that “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” In its most literal sense, does this apply to when the house is made of broken glass. Figure 1 is an image of an art display at the Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth, Massachusetts. It shows a single wall of a glass “house,” albeit not one that will have much utility in the event of rain – but it does make one wonder about the old saying, and also seems to speak to the general issue of living transparently. The structure illustrates how to our minds a three-dimensional structure is defined simply by a set of dots connected by lines.  In terms of the photograph, i was struck by the simplicity of the structure and, of course, by the way that the light glistened off the shards of glass.

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens at 75 mm, ISO 1600, Aperture Priority AE Mode, 1/500th sec at f/7.1 with no exposure compensation.