Window, McMansion, Randolph

an artwork of two vertical rectangles, a monochrome white canvas above and a faint grey assemblage of painted wood below, divided into three sections with black painted vertical wood trim, the whole thing reads as a tall window with mullions, but is a 1949 work by ellsworth kelly
Ellsworth Kelly, Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1949, oil on wood and canvas, two joined panels, 50 1/2 x 19 1/2 in., a gift of the artist to the Centre Pompidou, image via ellsworthkelly.org

In our timeline, in October 1949, Ellsworth Kelly, a young former soldier studying painting on the GI Bill, saw the windows of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in a new way, as a composition, one that could become a painting/object just as it was, and in fact, the whole world was like that, full of subjects he could spend his whole life discovering and transforming into paintings.

a detail of a real estate listing for a cursed new house in north carolina where the vinyl siding and etsy accent barnwood are all outlined with black trim like a line drawing, and mcmansion hell has added an annotation of a dozen or more question marks to a porch roof that doesn't match, but this image is posted here because on the left side of the house is what appears to be a double height window made from two single sindows, which is misaligned to all the rest of the black trim, but which also bears a resemblance, however cursed, to the museum of modern art paris window that ellsworth kelly saw in 1949

In another timeline, a young Ellsworth Kelly saw these two off-the-shelf prairie mullion windows kludged together to look like one tall, misaligned, window on a house in the middle of a gravel field in North Carolina that was just posted on McMansion Hell, and drove straight to the army to re-enlist as a requisitions compliance auditor, eventually retiring from a job at a cubicle in Ring C of the Pentagon. His little yard is full of old stoves, which he salvages from apartment turnovers, repairs, and sells on Facebook.

Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1949 [ellsworthkelly.org]
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg [mcmansionhell]