back home from the range

Well, we did it. All four of us for four days, living and working at the gallery. Zack made a home for us; he built a platform on wheels that we eventually covered with a cross between a blanket fort and a modern tent. And then we painted and performed for the camera, completing three video pieces on site (will post a link when we get them up on Vimeo).

The boys, for the most part, loved it. The courtyard alone was an adventure... it's fenced in, so they had more freedom even than our yard at home, though a brush with urban wilderness came in the form of a decomposing bird that slid out of an upturned bucket of rainwater-- ugh! But this was utterly appropriate to the themes we were playing with-- the crossovers between civilization and wilderness, choosing to "rough it" as an antidote to too much control, etcetera.

I'll post again with more finished product shots...