№ 96
Before Restoration

Here the Stairs End — For Now

A stair landing with the same pointed-arch wrought-iron railing already seen in exhibits No. 92–93 — here it curves around a plastered newel post and comes to an end. Beside it, a window covered with boards and cardboard, and beyond it, lower down, a round arched opening temporarily patched with pieces of cardboard, through which bright daylight seeps — the same round opening already seen from inside, looking up from the bottom of the stairwell, in exhibit No. 93.

According to the estate's owners, this is exactly where the stairs currently end, on the third floor. After the reconstruction, they will be extended further up — to a fourth floor that does not yet functionally exist today. So this photograph records not only the building's current condition, but also the very limit of its height, one that is planned to be crossed in the near future.

As in the other exhibits in this series, the animation only shifts the camera barely perceptibly — the frame is already real and in colour.

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