roughing it

{image: Ullmayer Sylvester Architects: summer house for family of four*}

"STUDIO INTENSIVE RESIDENCY!
Crawl Space is pleased to announce this year's Resident artist ZACK BENT right here from Seattle. Zack's work in photography and video is often in collaboration with his wife and children who will be accompanying him during the last half of his lock-in week. Visitation by any member of the public who may wish to witness the mayhem will be permitted at 6pm on Wednesday 18 June and at 11am on Thursday 19 June. The Studio Residency Exhibition will open 6-9pm on Saturday 21 June."

Wife and children = me and the boys! Yes, yes, y'all. We're roughing it in a gallery in order to explore the ideas of displacement of a family structure, whether chosen or enforced. I'm thinking... camping, refugees, boy scouts, the wild west, simplification a la Thoreau, simplification a la Andrea Zittel, war victims, relocation projects, hurricanes and floods, the frontier. I'm thinking... "Don't forget to pack the..."

I just told a colleague about the project and she referred me to Shed, based out of Seattle. I don't think Zack will make anything THIS* clean and modern, but it's an interesting simplification strategy trend in architecture.