A Room Without a View

A Room at Cape Spear, o/p, 20" x 24", Steven Rhude

It appears to be a room easily described.
It is a view of a room, but not what one would consider
a room with a view.
Is it early morning light?
Or, is it the dusk of evening shapes that recede?
We will never no because there is no visible light source. 
The room is minimalist, a grayish silver.
A post modern reformation decor,
more suited to a contemporary gallery,
with nothing in it...
but a concept no one believes in.
It has been declared surplus.
Stand back far enough and the colourless walls,
may limit ones freedom.
Even the brick chimney is concealed by white washed planks.
Yet, the room may also buttress our imagination. 
Our viewpoint is specific.
We stand in the rooms center.
There is no other occupant to share the flatness of the white wooden walls with us.
The slightly open door is "our" door,
it is neither open or closed; just slightly ajar.
It merely delineates the flow from one room to the next. 
Really, it is a room between rooms.
A vaccum between purpose and reality,
where there is little definition save for the door handle
 and the linearity of the planking.
The room must have a past.
Since it was a Keeper's room,
that past is now its future.
As I leave, I bid the ticket attendant "good day".

Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS.