Chapter One: The Bathroom is a window installation which is located at 112 West 44th Street and is FREE and open to the public at all times.

The Glass Project dedicates itself to the liberation of J.D. Salinger’s much adored Glass Family, imprisoned behind their cream and rainbow insignia paperbacks and littered about his short stories including Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenter, and Nine Stories. In The Glass Project, these circumscribed darlings, published in the Kennedy era,and part of a tradition of controversy over copyright and reproduction, become accessible through a final, unnamed character in the epic saga: their house.

Chapter 1: The Bathroom, the first in this series of multimedia installations and performances, explores the universal themes of voyeurism, relief, and release associated with this most private and precious of rooms. This exploration of the Glass Family’s history with bathrooms will serve as a crossword puzzle that has been written over, incompletely erased, yet is still legible to all observers. Through video, sound, and an interactive telephone line, Chapter 1: The Bathroom becomes a medium for both the family’s prodigious catharses and the reader’s blind obsession with these cult figures. In an age where paper literature’s popularity has shifted towards tabloids, The Glass Project harkens instead to a cultural obsession with a fictional reality.