La Finestra i el Ponent (hot winds through the window)

Finestra i el Ponent (hot west winds through the window)

Collaboration with María Isabel Pinyas de Mills using the Spanish Tudor form of the window header. The piece is entitled Finestra i el Ponent, (The Ponent wind through the window) the name of a hot wind from occidente.  

The west is associated with death because in Latin occidere is to die; the sun dies in the west.  The window is, by tradition, thought to be a protection from the inside of the house against the dark forces of the hot west wind.

The Spanish Tudor upward pointed form of the window is common here and is seen on houses as well as in churches.  

(Notes from Ramón Piñas, my brother in law, the title is attributed to María Isabel Pinyas de Mills.  This state of the piece may undergo further work in the days to come).

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