Image Critique-Uta Barth-"Nowhere Near"

When initially seeing this photograph, and before i researched the concept behind Barth’s work, I was reminded of painting methods that use light to portray a subject. The photo was interesting to me because the focus would normally be on scene outside the window; whereas here the focus is on the window itself and how it changes the objects outside. There are repeated shapes in the square window panes, and the view through the window is blurred. The scene through the window is recognizable as a landscape with a tree and building, but the focus seems to be on the time of day, the color palette created by light, and the shapes created by all of these . Her personal perception looking through this window is very apparent. The panes of glass that she is looking through are visible, as well as the reflections of red light from her house, and the time of day when she happened to be looking through this window. The viewpoint is a very personal one, because if anyone else were looking through the window the conditions would be different. For example, the place where she is standing, the light reflecting on the glass, the time of day, and the focus on the background and foreground are all records of place and time that are personal to her.