The Open Window
F. Scott HessThe Open Window is 8 p.m. in my Hours of the Day series. A woman relaxes in her bath, reading a book (Oedipus Rex). Outside, two little boys rustle through the bamboo, mesmerized by the scene before them. Is she aware she is being watched? Posed by the same woman who appears in the 5 a.m. birth painting, one of the boys is the very same child who was emerging from her in that image. Perhaps it is another Sophoclean tragedy in the making.
February 9, 2010
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The Open Window
F. Scott Hess (b. 1955)
The Open Window
1996
oil on canvas
48 × 64 inches
8 pm in The Hours of the Day series.
