Childress House

Architectural Optics, near Ucross, Wyoming – 2007

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This optical installation piece used a bedroom in an abandoned ranch house in the sparse hills of north-central Wyoming. Somewhat like the walls dissolving into a jungle in Where the Wild Things Are, this piece made the old plaster and woodwork of the room into a kind of canvas on which a varied fantastic and dreamlike landscape paints itself. It uses the natural optical projection of a detailed, objectively represented image to expand the narrative possibilities of a space. The specific qualities of the cracked plaster, the dry hills, the active sky and the old woodwork makes for more than the sum of its parts.

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Thanks to the Ucross Foundation