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transforming my street... thinking about personal freedom... and action

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This is from sitting inside the space with the door shut. The felt rectangle on the door is a basic backdrop for animating felt shapes onto.

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Its not perfect or pretty but it is functional. There are tension bars going across from wall to wall, and connected to that I have a small spider-y tripod wrapped around those for holding my phone/camera.

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I transformed a space thinking about personal identity with objects- you can ask me what a specific object reflects

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Garnet added a rocket ship for his kitty

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Garnet added a rocket ship for his kitty

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This mirror...

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Bathroom mirror

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I love how many notes she left all over the room...

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I love how many notes she left all over the room...

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(my husband thought I was taking a picture of him... I didn't want to disappoint him).
After my daughter moved out after the quarantine (she left NYC for March and April). I painted the room and started to add my artwork, a desk, and couch. She is visiting this week and it is hard because she still is connected to the room. I love being in her room. I am thankful to have a place to teach from at home.

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"love yourself no matter how hard you are to love"

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 6

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 6

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I still haven't resolved studio space. My daughter is home for a month as she is in between college apartments. She had moved anything nostalgic out of her bedroom when we had packed up. The only thing left in there is a bed. She said I can turn it into my studio after she moves into her new apartment.... But that feels bittersweet.
It's good to move every 7 years or so. Molt. Refresh. I don't know how long we will stay here, but my house feels shaken up and settled into a new, maybe better pattern.

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 5

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 5

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After 3 months of a decluttered kitchen counter and no microwave, we decided to get more kitchen storage/counter space and set up a new kitchen cart to hold the stuff that used to be on our counter tops.
It's been a strange experience. Like moving, without actually moving. We cleaned out a lot of junk. We own too much stuff, and it seems like half of the stuff is art and studio stuff.

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 4

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 4

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In  June real estate opened back up. We tidied up, cleaned obsessively, had lots of appointments for showings. The owners of the house we had an offer on were getting impatient. On June 12th we got an offer on our house, but the owners of the property we wanted to buy got one too. We lost out. We declined the offer on our house and resolved to stay put, taking it off the market. We moved all our stuff back home from storage, but instead of putting it back where it was before we've been playing with our space a little. Instead of a big mirror in my dining room I hung a gallery wall of some of my art and my friends' art.

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 3

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 3

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Online teaching soon took over my days. I needed a digital studio so that I could do both live and pre-recorded instruction. My computer won't do zoom backgrounds so I hung one of my larger artworks as a back drop, ordered a scissor arm camera mount, added a clip lamp, and propped my laptop up on my trash can for a better camera angle.

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 2

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Marie Elcin moving/not moving/adapting 2

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I needed masks and a spot to sew. At some point we visited our storage unit and I brought back my sewing machine. My office chair stayed there, so I brought up an ottoman to sit on. No extension cord in the house still, so I had to move my desk closer to the outlet.

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At the beginning of March we found a place we wanted to move to and had an offer accepted contingent on the sale of our house. We packed up our stuff and put it in storage so we could have showings and open houses. Then a week after our first open house PA ordered shelter in place and shut down all real estate transactions. I entered into quarantine time with an almost empty house and very few art supplies available. We debated about whether to keep the house on the market, and decided to wait it out. This is my empty studio space corner in my bedroom where there used to be boxes full of art and art supplies, a magnetic board filled with postcards and work in progress.

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Cardboard tunnel maze beneath the inclined plane. Need to add more textures into the mix

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Sketching and intellectualizing the task haven't worked so well for me... I've been more successful getting hands-on with the materials and having the kittens test in the moment

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“1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at the Istanbul Biennial in 2002

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“1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” at the Istanbul Biennial in 2002

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LET THE MESS BEGIN...

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First time using it

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We're calling it a "bridge" NOT a ramp....

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Oddly the number of men wildly outnumber the number of women... it's what came in the set.

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Oddly the number of men wildly outnumber the number of women... it's what came in the set.

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More will travel tomorrow.

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The tops of our doorframes are really ignored spaces. Now they have people!

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The tops of our doorframes are really ignored spaces. Now they have people!

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A sketch!

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A prototype!

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Then I made it look super classy by drawing on it with some markers.

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...a covering for the space that hides our random stuff!

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...and taped them together with duct tape to make...

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...cut some cardboard boxes...

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Then I measured out the space...

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I put a bunch of the random objects we have into the recessed area of the room.

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I bought an old house a few years ago. I've been slowly renovating the whole thing but there are still plenty of rough spaces. My partner recently moved in so our stuff is all over the place as we 1) try to make organized spaces for our things to coexist and 2) continue to tear down and build into the areas that I haven't finished renovating.

My partner's birthday is on Monday and we've been isolating so his parents can come visit us and celebrate. So I'm going to transform this space with the following purposes in mind: 1) temporarily hide an unfinished area of the house  2) temporarily hide some of the stuff that we haven't found homes for before his parents arrive 3) be a bit silly

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I need to find some space. I'll be back.

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There are five siblings in my family. We all summered on this lake. Privilege. Continuity. Squabbling. Doris Salcedo, Brian Jungen, Giuseppe Penone, Liz Magor, Louise Nevelson.

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I thought oak chairs might like to visit the old gnarly tree.

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I started inside, stacking chairs.

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I am living on land that has been in my family for  95 years. It had been logged before then. Only one old growth tree was left.

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My daughter found her transparent red binoculars.

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I am headed to the junk drawer and recycling bin! The kittens' favorite materials include wrinkly kraft paper, cardboard boxes–especially with holes, zip ties, pompoms, and sisal rope.

I am going to test out different surfaces and textures that might be appealing and sensory engaging.

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Need to build a climbing structure from the ground to the windowsill, about 2 feet high.

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I am fostering 4 adorable kittens who are learning to jump and climb. Two of them have discovered there is a world outside the living room window. They can't reach the windowsill on their own, so I am going to build them a special structure that will let them safely explore this space.

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Not much of a change, but I'll have to clean up soon. My toddler has given me enough work already....maybe I'll have more fun later.

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My partner's mother set up up this space for herself to work when she comes to the cottage. She broke her arm hiking the Appalachian Trail and so we are staying longer at the cottage while she is away. So now my vacation is extended/ I still need to work.

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What do we have in the house that is translucent? Let's try to attach it to the net...

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The Hallway of Daily Disasters, where my son relocates all his toys are various parts of the day.

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Ben's space - Designated site for mini animation studio

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This is deer netting. It's very strong. I'm going to use this to cover the wall/window space so that I have a place to attach objects.

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Hi There!  I'm from Minnesota and just finished my Cohort Year.  I've chosen the dining room deck door as my space.  Here are a few things I need to consider:
1.  This space still needs be functional - the door needs to be used by my husband when he grills and my dog when she needs to pee.
2. My children are going to interrupt me regardless, so I'll make this project with some of their ideas in mind.
3. I want to maximize the light that comes in and see how the installation changes with different light.

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Our house has almost no empty space, if it does it's extremely small. It's also all being used so dedicating a space is tricky. We live in a lot of clutter that's gotten worse since we've been at home so much. I found these tiny architectural models of Saudis (and cars, and trees...) at the stationary store and think they might start having tiny adventures in the tiny spaces around the house. Teeny tiny Saudis going on teeny tiny adventures...

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A studio and office space at home. I transformed my daughter's bedroom. Here are a few of my favorite "before" photographs. They are all of the notes she wrote on her pink walls .

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The one thing I really miss is having company over. After some health issues in our family we decided to make a concentrated effort to invite friends over weekly for dinners. Now that we are alone I wish we had a visual record of all our guests and dinners. My plan is to create a space that would serve as a "guest book."

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I transformed a space in an effort to recapture my youth. This was not specifically designed for the institute but was a great excuse to follow through on something I've dreamed about doing.

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Check out this video to get started!

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This is an asynchronous workshop that will ask you to think about the space you have in your home. Think about how you use that space and how you could change it to serve another function.
These changes could be either permanent or temporary.
Please take some time to document the space before the change and discuss what changes you plan to make and why.