Installation Space Exploration

1. Miniature medieval nerdspace: Ok, so this is stupid, but hear me out. What if we just sat around and played with little miniature town parts?

 2. This is a very odd hallway in my house. It’s long and skinny. I’ve often fantasized about filling the space with hundreds of tiny portraits, creating a weird take on one of those long portrait galleries in French museums or palaces or whatever. 

3. This is my son Elliot’s playroom. It’s awful. This is a photo of it being awful about five minutes after Elliot had a play date with Lilly, Poppy, Liam and that one kid whose name I can never remember. Gaston? Anyway, If I took a bulldozer to this room, it could be an amazing space to slap up some installation art!

4. I’m showing photos of my house because I have actually thought that using the Installations class as a way to learn to use space might help me fulfill an idea I’ve had of throwing local parties that include an element of installed art. In fact, when I signed up for the class, this was my initial thought—someday I’d like to use parts of my home to introduce people to my art during curated events. This is the liiiiiibrary, darling, sans Colonel Mustard. 

5. More views of places that could be spaces! This is the parlor of our old house, still lacking much decor in this part of the room, because I’ve always wanted to use the space for art. It could easily act as a staging area.

6. So, obviously no one is going to come to my house in Neenah to look at an installation for the purpose of a class. This led me to start thinking about places on campus. But, I’m going to need to access the project up to the last minute so that I can successfully procrastinate and bathe myself in that tasty feeling of finishing projects at the last minute. BAM, IHAUL!

7. Here’s another idea that could be successfully transported. I am inspired by a guy I once saw who was wearing a shower curtain for Halloween. This idea feels super clean to me. (Badum TSS!)

8. So this idea is actually serious and totally not half-assed. (I recognize that that sentence sounded sarcastic, but it’s not meant to be.) I’m interested in the nomadic aspect of my student work at Lawrence—how to work on projects responsibly, but also juggle the full-time stay-at-home fatherhood aspect of my day-to-day. I’m interested in the idea of the U-Haul, but that seems like a larger space than I’m ready to commit to, so what if I used my own vehicle. I have several ideas for the passenger side seat of my car, in which I could invite viewers in one at a time for the experience.

9. With the idea above in mind, here is another space: the trunk of my vehicle, or the boot as British people say. Picture this: me dressed as a hag, having ingested mushrooms, sitting on my tailgate with a television in back playing something off-putting while I hand out candy like it’s Halloween. The candy could be…like…Chico-stix and red vines and ribbon candy or something else no one likes. A big sign on the top of my vehicle that says something like, “hey kids, FREE CANDY!” Eh eh?

10. I’m really fascinated by stairwells. Don’t ask.