Wonga Wetlands Albury - a set on Flickr

Wonga Wetlands Albury - a set on Flickr

Matteo Pericoli and his drawings of New York City | Art | Art and design | The Observer

Matteo Pericoli and his drawings of New York City | Art | Art and design | The Observer

The view from one's window is, as the artist Matteo Pericoli puts it, "one of the least designable things about the buildings we call home, but the one that perhaps affects us most deeply every day". Pericoli, who is best known for his epic book, Manhattan Unfurled, a 22ft fold-out drawing of the New York skyline, has now turned his attention to a more intimate, but no less intriguing, subject: what New York's writers and artists see when they look out of their windows. It's a simple idea that yields surprising results – about the nature of urban living, about the creative imaginations of those who choose to live and work in a city and, perhaps most intriguingly, about Pericoli's own unique and slightly obsessive way of seeing.

"When you draw something, it often becomes more interesting somehow," he says, when I call him in Turin, where he now lives. "It is not just representation, it's more about telling a story. These drawings are not about how I see, but how I think. They are a kind of thinking process brought to life through lines."

Pericoli has found that the people who grant him access to the views from their windows are "constantly surprised by the results in a way that they would not be surprised by a photograph or even a painting". What he captures, he says, "is not a transient moment, but a presence of some kind".

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Orhan Pamuk: Windows on the World | Art and design | The Observer

Orhan Pamuk: Windows on the World | Art and design | The Observer

But I know a part of me is always busy with some part of the landscape, following the movements of the seagulls, trees and shadows, spotting boats and checking to see that the world is always there, always interesting and always a challenge to write about: an assurance that a writer needs to continue to write and a reader needs to continue to read.

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Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats | Books | guardian.co.uk

Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats | Books | guardian.co.uk

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