Entries from May 2008 ↓

Stuffed Full in My Kitchen


Trek into Nagoya

I received an email from a curator at The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (愛知県美術館) in Nagoya asking me if I would like to do a one day performance at the Museum. I agreed and today I went into the city to meet the curator Fumiko Nakamura (中村史子). She showed me around the […]

Grass and a Fence on The Lawn Bike

The Lawn Bike now has a very sickly looking layer of brown sod on it. I also roughed in the fence posts to get an idea of the final appearance. Now I have to level out the grass and water it a lot. Where is my green thumb?

Cutting Fabric for “Stuffed Full”

Currently I am cutting pattern pieces for the large inflatable installation that I will exhibit at the Laredo Center for the Arts this July. All the sewing is done in my apartment and takes up a lot of space.  I estimatedd that it takes about 23 minutes to sew one tube minus the time […]

Big Red Performance at Onsen

During the performance of Big Blob at the Nagakutte Cultural Center in Nagoya, the owner of a new onsen in town asked me if I would do a performance in the spring for the one year anniversary of the hot springs. He requested Big Blob but I knew that it would be hotter so […]

Put Chain on Lawn Bike

Today I finished up the routing of the two chains that will power the “grass bike.”  The first chain goes around the chainring on the cranks to a rear cassette bolted below.  From that cassette a separate chain makes the long trip to the rear sprocket on the rear wheel.  The central cassette serves as […]