| Winifred
Lutz selected two places in the house where the connection
between the interior and exterior reveals the influence
of natural boundaries on architectural spaces. Her
four-part installation underscores physical, experiential,
and metaphorical relationships between these spaces
and corresponding areas that she located on the grounds.
Thus, the entrance foyer becomes an analog for the
giant copper beech that visitors pass to arrive at
Glyndor House. The foyer's ceiling dome is leafed
with copper and holds an image from the beech in winter,
revealing its branches as if looking upward from the
center of its trunk. The niches in the foyer hold
surfaces of the bark of the beech to complete an inside-out
memory of the space beneath the tree. In the square
sunroom, a framed circle of moss evokes the grassy
stone-encircled overlook that is visible in winter
from the arched windows of the room, but whose view
is now obscured by summer foliage. The last piece
of the installation is situated in the circular lawn
of the overlook, where a square of glass block has
been inlaid, becoming a window to the earth beneath.
Thus two outlooks are transposed, outside circle to
inside square; inside square to outside circle.
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