In January 2003, I visited Hawa Mahal - Palace of the Winds (1799) in Jaipur. The 953 windows facing the street feature stone-carved screens which allowed the ladies of the court to watch processions and other activities unobserved by the outside world. While looking through these windows, I also discovered a number of openings that looked to the sky. Many of them were almost like peepholes, the view off the blue sky fragmented and blocked by a fine latticework of lime plaster. Some openings were completely sealed by stratified plasters. The obscured openings seemed a metaphor for the relationship between the world and us.

New Delhi, India, 2003