My initial response to Anna Barriball’s wrapped ”window panes” was to wonder how I ought to be responding? What did the artist intend as an ideal response, if at all? How did other people respond? Where was my response in the scheme of individual responses to these pieces of artwork? I went on to decide that mine was one of cool detachment. I felt neither a strong nor a weak response. Yet indifference was too negative a description. I then embarked upon a journey in my mind which took me way back to the days of being a bored child during the summer holidays. I had often lent up against a cool window pane in my bedroom and counted all the red cars that passed by. It was the 70s. There was far less traffic on the roads back then. I realised that making a game of ”I spy” was something kids did before the Internet arrived on the scene. I wondered whether they still did this.
By the time this last thought arrived in my mind I was already well on the way to being fast asleep.
Maureen Walker's blog: An Artist's Journey 
As I rather share your discreet implication: that Anna Barrinall’s work id toward the soporific end of the stimulation spectrum, I Googled for other opinions.
In a review on The Scotsman website
(https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/art/art-reviews-anna-barriball-reflections-recent-acquisitions-1-2090450/amp)
I found this:
“….Anna Barriball’s work is nice to look at, but it is really pretty thin. Like so much contemporary art, it’s mostly just a peg for wordy, semiotic commentary and once you let in semiotics there’s no limit to the meaning words can impose on the dullest art. It’s a paradox in an age dominated by images that in contemporary art it’s words that seem to count most. With things like windows that are walls, or fireplaces that breathe, you can hang endless interpretation onto a very limited form of expression; limited, that is, in everything except effort, for another common feature of contemporary art is the obsessive, mindless activity to which Anna Barriball’s drawing is witness. It is as though sheer effort was enough. It isn’t.”
Hard to disagree!
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