Megan and Murray

The Truck Has Arrived

Installation Plans

(Posting from the iPhone.)

We're in California for the next two weeks working on the installation for the Kwon Fong Gallery at CLU. About to go pick up some wood. Here are some notes on the installation.

New Organizer

Large projects/areas get bigger circles surrounded by things we need to do. Highlighted circles are to be done next. Black circles are done. We love to fill in the black circles.

Lamp Score at St Paul's in Newport

More From the Abandoned Air Force Base

Abandoned Air Force Base in North Truro, Cape Cod

OK

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Ever have one of those months? We're still recovering from August. Since we were traveling for 6 weeks, we passed all of our problems, headaches and hurdles—and they've been catching up with us now that we've stopped moving.

We've moved into a new live work studio—and are loving it—but are contending with a leaky ceiling and getting organized. Every time I need something I have to look for awhile. On top of that we bought a $400 cargo van with some fellow artists that is needing a lot of attention to pass emissions.

But the real drama is our animals. The dog didn't want to leave the bedroom for weeks and the adventurous cat found a way inside our walls (is that meow coming from the wall?), got hung up on something and is now in a Elizabethan collar.

That said, we're considering a photo shoot this weekend at Cape Cod. Perhaps we should keep running and see if life just gets bored and quits.

Scaffolding

We're still moving into our studio. Here's the scaffold we made to paint (and will use later for fabrication).

Update

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For the last week we've traveled through Helsinki, Berlin and London to end up in Dallas to pick up our dog, who has been spending the summer with family. We drove from Dallas to our home in Providence and now are preparing to move into a new live/work space this month.

We've always wanted a single place to live and work but for one reason or another [read: money] this has never worked out. for the five years we lived in LA, affording sizable studio space was a frequent source of frustration that ultimately became a reason to leave.

One of the great things about Providence is the abundance of old factories that have been transformed into a wide range of live/work spaces ranging from luxury lofts with granite-counter-tops to spaces that artists can actually afford and have enough space to get things done.

As an aside, this is one of the two reasons why so many artists live in Providence (the other being proximity to Boston and NYC). I should add that RISD is a good anchor store.

Our studio has always been a short drive away from where we lived, which has the illusion of keeping our home life and work life separate. In reality, what our work ends up looking like is half office-work and half studio-work. Since our past studios have been so rough, the office-work, including files and printers and such, happened at home. We've never had a real separation of work and home. And don't get me started on how being married to your collaborator magnifies this.

Our studio last year was 20 minutes away from our home/office. This was just enough to make us think twice about taking a trip, which ultimately means less time in the studio. On top of that, it was super cold in winter and too dirty to do paperwork. Our thinking now is that a live work space will take less time and money and be a more efficient place to do everything we need to do.

The place we're moving into has two floors. We'll live on the top floor and work on the bottom. Our idea is that we'll make downstairs and breathe upstairs.

Art, money, living and working are terribly hard to balance. We'll let you know what we find out.

Building the Landscape (7)

In this image we're adjusting the choreography and lighting. If you look closely, you can see how we've designed the landscape to slide open--there is a channel that goes directly through to the performer stage (see the image on the previous post).