People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - but should one such let her fellow Chileans stand and watch as she dresses?
Actress Daniella Tobar sleeps, showers, uses her bathroom, eats, brushes her teeth, reads, and talks on the phone inside the one-room transparent house, which was built a block from Chile's Presidential palace and is part of an art project, Reuters says.
The house is also next to a bank and a church, across from the stock exchange, and it drew a crowd of awe-struck Chileans Wednesday as she awoke and dressed.
Chile's National Fund for the Development of the Arts financed the glass house, hoping to open up a debate about public and private spaces in this conservative country. The house project will run two weeks, Reuters says, before moving to neighboring Argentina.
The house is surrounded by a wall, the wire service continues, but passersby can peer over the wall easily. Barricades have been erected to keep pedestrians from interrupting traffic.
Tobar herself seems to be taking the attention in stride. "I feel a little bit like I am in a glass zoo," she tells a Santiago radio station. "I do not think people are ready for this. In this country, people need to see the beauty in daily life."
Reuters says about one hundred people, mostly men stood on the sidewalk under the sun Wednesday afternoon waiting for her to reappear. The wire says an occasional "here comes the chick!" would rise but dash hopes when found to be a false alarm.
The actress also seems to have earned a secret admirer, Reuters says - a red rose tied with a ribbon lay atop a white envelope in the dirt inside her patio waiting for her.
