I haul, we haul, you haul.

Installation Art, Spring, 2026 | I would like to invite viewers to help me move into a new home while thinking about themes of transience, peripatetic existences and nomadic lifestyles.

I will be parked in the street at Lawrence and giving passersby the chance to step aboard my trusty GMC G-3500 U-haul to help me move furniture into my new house. In the back of the U-haul will be a fine selection 3d printed furniture at one-inch (1:12) dollhouse scale, hand painted by me.

I, dressed in high visibility work clothing and a hard hat, will ask for help carrying the furniture into the dollhouse, which will be situated on a table within a short distance from the U-haul.

At the table, viewers will be able to help me organize furniture in my rooms, install (precut) shag carpeting and hardwood flooring, prep the nursery and paint the exterior with miniature paint rollers—all workers are to be compensated, of course. (I plan to have a fat stack of $1’s to pass out to the movers and handy-persons.)

My intention with this installation is think about how moving around for work, school and romance has shaped me as a person, while giving students on campus a chance to reflect on where they will go  and their future physical space once they are done with Lawrence. The act of moving between homes, apartments or dorms is something that, more than most things, disrupts and changes your life, for better or worse, and I think those changes are interesting. 

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Alternate addition or completely separate idea: in the back of the U-haul, I might set up a cardboard dorm room, since I don’t have a dorm at Lawrence.