Well, sweet readers, the long haul is complete however I don’t publish a finished image for you.  You need to come to my show to see that!

My first image is from where I last left you.  This  is the beginning of Plan B- and the beginning of hours sitting on that ladder making “onion paper.”  It’s been quite the process  and one where I have needed many hours of help in folding and sewing paper to attach to my sugar pieces.  I actually am quite happy with this solution and think it is more interesting than the initial sketch I envisioned for this wall.  So, go me!

After applying all the paper to be torn I then painted the floor and then set it all to dry for Sunday….. a reaaaallllyyyyyy long day.

Sunday morning I started in on finishing the onion paper then started the “scaffold” section of the room.  I actually wasn’t worrying about it so much UNTIL…..

…………I projected the video just to get the gist of how far the scaffold needs to go and the video looked completely stupid.  Now the video itself didn’t look stupid.  It was how it was framed on the wall.  I couldn’t get enough distance from the projected wall and have the scale of the image in proportion.  Now I had to redirect.  I moved the projector around the room and finally came up with a sufficient place to place the projector and maintain the character of the video’s presence.  I’m very happy with the result however it shifted the entire focal point.  And where I needed to build out the scaffold.  I guess one lesson here is about rolling with the punches- and listening to the work and what it wants (as Adriano would say).  I think it’s good to not push it.  I didn’t have time to fight it.  I was tired and sore and maybe even stressed over not being prepared for the week of school.  I don’t think my shoulders left my ears all day!

So finally, while in the home stretch, I was happy with where it was going.  The structure of the room maintained all the character that I had envisioned and I think I did it without tears- even when the big sugar broke.

The finally installation tally is as follows:

yards of fabric: 36
yards of paper, 36″ wide: 150
feet of wood: 33
number of nights sleeping on site: only one
number of cups of coffee drank: countless
number of times I watched “Pride and Prejudice”: 4
number of times I watched “what the bleep do we know”: 5.5
how many hours cursing sewing machines: way too numerous to count

To see the final result…….

PLEASE COME SEE MY SHOW, ARCHITECT’S DAUGHTER- MARCH 15 THROUGH MARCH 31
CLOSING RECEPTION: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31; GALLERY TALK AT 4P
ARTS LEHIGH BUILDING, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, 230 PACKER AVE, BETHLEHEM