SETTING
The building stands alone,
so the windows do the work a facade
would do in town.
After dark the countryside goes genuinely black,
and the night rooms use it.

BY DAY
OPEN HOURS is the reception room.
The window wall is rebuilt as an instrument:
vents above, translucent panels,
two clear bays for the landscape.
A single ring of black leather seating holds the centre.

THE PLINTH is the exhibition room.
One raised concrete slab carries the whole show;
visitors and works stand on the same pedestal.
The works are read against the light.

THE COUNTER is the shop.
One piece of furniture and nothing else:
blackened oak, tinted-glass cases,
resin ends lit from within.

DRAWN BLINDS is the studio.
Blinds and sheers spread the daylight
into one even working light,
without the distraction of the view.

BY NIGHT
LOW SKY is the seated room.
Fibre-optic lines strung wall to wall
are the only light source.
Projections and performances are read against them.

PLUMB LINE is the event room.
One vertical holds it:
a lit filament dropped from the ceiling
to a point on the floor.

AFTER HOURS is the shop floor,
on the night rooms' schedule.
Light belongs to what is for sale:
each rail carries its own line of light,
the rest stays dark.