Elizabeth Day felt as if she hadn\u2019t seen the sun\u00a0for decades. It was a\u00a0gloomy December morning and the podcaster and author was headed towards a London recording studio. On the way, she passed a\u00a0row of houses that were being renovated. The windows on one particular house had just been replaced and covered with a translucent blue sheet and haphazard orange tape; the scene caught her eye, so she paused to capture it with her iPhone 15 Pro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m known among my loved ones as someone who takes photos of random things, but I just found this so arresting,\u201d Day says. \u201cI\u00a0was struck by the grammar of it, the angular nature. The tape reminded me of art\u2019s golden ratio, the geometry like a Mondrian crossed with a Rothko. I was exhausted that morning and it completely brightened my mood.\u201d<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Inside Saturday<\/p>\n The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Some months later, Day entered the image into the Royal Academy of Arts\u2019 annual Summer Exhibition<\/a>, and was delighted to be selected. \u201cI love the fact that anyone can enter,\u201d Day says. \u201cIt proves that anyone can be an artist, and that art is for everyone.\u201d She\u2019s now in touch with an interested buyer. \u201cThe RA will keep 35%, but I\u2019ll donate the remainder to the Palestine Children\u2019s Relief Fund<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Day passed by the house again recently to find the renovation complete. The window looked like any other, but, she says, \u201cThe transient nature makes it more special, I think. I just hope people will have a conversation with the image. Maybe it makes you reflect on your own life, or the life of the person on the other side of the window. Who were they? Who will they be?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Day felt as if she hadn\u2019t seen the sun\u00a0for decades. It was a\u00a0gloomy December morning and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}