My comfort level in my role as Artist in Residence has been fairly high due to the warmth and support I have felt from the Director, Gerd Mueller, the Executive Director, Isabella Sarto-Jackson and particularly from Guido, the Scientific Director. It is quite notable how unusual it is be in a public space, creating and putting my work up, that I don’t feel terribly exposed. It felt awkward initially, and while I still feel hesitant to make changes to the public spaces, I also feel the encouragement of the group energy and spirit of inquiry.

The question of how to integrate the architecture, the space, the Fellows and subject of measurement has been uppermost.

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to be taken to the OBI by the caretaker, Mustafa, and this allowed me and my wheel-spinning imagination to get out of the Institute and into the material realm that could lead to making more 3D. 

This week’s increasingly 3D experiments have lead hanging the paper studies from a lightweight beam mounted with clamps and wire bought at the OBI store.  From there I began to imagine paper shapes suspended in the Atrium.  With the wire I began making 3D shapes and elevating them.

The Fellows come down to the seating area next to my studio for our ongoing interviews and some are curious about what they see and it become easier to feel the wide meeting ground of our overlapping interests