Maree Makom

Record
Through a square orange window a woman in a
red hair-cover is seen, pacing meticulously in a
room in which only that square fraction of an
orange wall is revealed. At one point she emerges
with the tip of a pole that she moves back and
for th in a sweeping motion; later she disappears
under the windowpane’s frame and in her place
comes into view a huge brown shadow of a
distorted figure sitting on a stool, bent forward.
And then again she stands precisely in front of the
glass, in her hand a rag, scrubbing the imperceptible
sur face separating us over and over. The cut at
the end of the recorded movement is concealed
when the shot is attached anew to its beginning,
thus leaving the woman there in front of us,
cleaning and wiping the invisible stain, time and
again, forever.
Video Recording Site
Apartment building in a large city, perhaps
New York, perhaps Tel Aviv
Video Recording Occasion
1998. An assembly of window scenes shot at
nighttime in a variety of urban settings
Characters
Anonymous