Now that I have completed Big Red, I am taking a short break from my sewing machine. I still have a lot to sew for my show in Kyoto in June but I have been thinking about a bicycle project for awhile now. I have made countless bicycles in all shapes and sizes including an Invisible Bicycle. My bicycle ideas germinated during my first stay in Japan after university. This time of exploration in fabrication and public use allowed for the foundation of the projects that I undertook in Texas during graduate school. I moved away from bikes and created other public situations involving video and recently inflatable structures.

This time the project is hardly about being a bicycle at all. It is a new absurd situation. I want a portable yard since I live in an apartment in Japan. I need a place to kick back and barbque. I could be flipping steaks while waiting for a traffic signal or rub my feet through the grass in rush hour traffic. Those activities are a ways off but the foundation has been laid. There are a few milestones in bicycle fabrication. The first is the connection and alignment of all the wheels so the bicycle can roll. In this case it is a tricycle and therefore has an intermediary milestone of fabricating the steering system. After this the connection of the chain and pedals nearly completes the bike. Usually the flimsy seat and inadequate brake are hastily fastened at this time for a premature test spin. Then everything is finalized and disassembled for painting and final greasing and assembly. This project is at milestone one.