Work of Curiosity in 4D Intermedia

  To combine ritual and personal space, I sat in front of my closet everyday for 10 minutes and wrote down my thoughts. Almost every thought was about my closet, though there are a few that strayed away as I wrote in a stream of consciousness style. Throughout my writing, I went back and forth between worrying that I wouldn't have enough to write and wishing I had more time to write because I had so many thoughts to put down. In total, I wrote 145 individual thoughts. Having done this, I'm still not sure if it feels like both a lot of thoughts for one closet and not many thoughts at all.  I found it curious that I could think so many things about a single closet. After all, it's just a box with doors and some fabric and plastic inside. But in letting my mind wander around my closet, I realized I attach a curious amount of significance to those bits of material. Inside, personal meaning and relational attachments and environmental concerns and design structures and color tre...

  I really enjoyed this installation project! We didn't want to do anything too large or intrusive because the neighborhood (Coronado Circle) we met in felt pretty fancy. Instead, we chose to do something small and out of the way (but it still called attention to the space!). The bush we chose created a kind of corner, and the house features peek-a-booed out of the corner. After we set it up, it made me quite happy to look at the little house, with all of its little features, transforming this bush. I made a small window with a garden balcony, added the tiny lamp post and bench on the "front porch", and stuck a chimney on the "roof" with a paper towel for smoke.  The intention was to be fun and silly, but also to draw attention to the smaller creatures of the neighborhood. For all we know, this bush might actually be a little mouses' home! It's also a stark contrast to the well-maintained, carefully-designed, (very likely) million dollar homes on the cir...