Neighbours
by Richard Piper
Title
Neighbours
Artist
Richard Piper
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Description
This view from a video editing suit in London continually intrigued me. Over a period of months, editor Clive and I would occasionally relieve our eyes from the tv monitors by leaning out of the window and take in the air and views of notorious Soho. Immediately opposite were these two windows. But who lived behind them? - Did the neighbours even know each other? - Was one of them a light-fearing hermit? - Or something much more sinister?
The reality of the bricked-up window harks back to 1696 when the government introduced a window tax. Anyone with a window had to pay up, and the more windows you had the more you paid. This is also where the phrase 'daylight robbery' is thought to originate.
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January 2nd, 2012
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