construction progress

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Sarah

Hey, gals! I really missed you all this week.

We have started construction. My roommate is great at woodworking & currently has a job with a shop. This glass factory in my neighborhood (see the video I made about them here) is cutting and donating the mirror, but I don’t have it yet. For next Sunday, I should have the whole video-mirror-medicine cabinet set up in a freestanding structure, and my roommate can help me Sheetrock the strucuture during installation.

I ended up buying a TV, because a monitor would have required a computer and speakers. The TV has speakers, but it also has all kinds of audio inputs, so if anyone has computer speakers or other small speakers that I can borrow, I would like to try to use them to create a stereo effect, or maybe have them under or above the medicine cabinet so you hear the sound outside as Maya suggested. Please let me know ASAP so I can design for the size.

This week I am going to experiment with the mylar to see if that works.

I need to decide what products to put on the shelf — there will be a 6 inch tall shelf above the mirror cube. Any suggestions? Also, there is a drawer below, which I still fantasize about putting real dirt in and a towel rack (if anyone has an awesome hand towel, I’m looking for one of those too).

Also, I need to decide the title — I like the idea of the date & number, but I feel like it needs something else.

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About Sarah

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn based artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects about the urban experience that explore the changing city and investigate avenues for intervention. Her work encompasses video, installation, interactive sculpture and public art. Wright’s projects include THE NEWTOWN CREEK ARMADA (2012-2013) – a public art project exploring a New York City Superfund site; LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION (2008-2012) – a project chronicling displacement in the urban environment; and BROOKLYN MAKES (2009) – a site-specific video installation documenting manufacturing in North Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (New York), Mostra de Artes (Sao Paulo, Brazil), ACVic Center for Contemporary Arts (Vic, Spain), UnionDocs (NY), Conflux Festival (NY), Dumbo Arts Festival (NY) and Proteus Gowanus (NY). Wright holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Hudson River Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation & FEAST Brooklyn and has been an artist-in-residence at _gaia studio and the School of Making Thinking. She is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Marymount Manhattan College.
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