Our first day went really well, with kind weather and solid drawings from the whole team. The wall itself was a wonderful surface on which to work, and so through the day we plugged away.

We didn't have a chance to catch it on TV, but the next day we heard quite a bit about the local news coverage from people coming out to see for themselves. A quick search online found the following:

Oklahoma City's Children's Hospital.

During the day a couple of us split off to spend time at Oklahoma City's Children's Hospital. They had a truly impressive unit for the kids and a lot of walls to work on, so we had no trouble finding some space for patients and patient's siblings to draw a jungle. Once the trees had been established, this new landscape was populated with drawings of dinosaurs, people, and birds.

Generally, getting started on a Tape Art project is as simple as giving a quick demo, and then handing our collaborators a role or two of tape and help them realize their vision, as individuals and a team. Sometimes this means just drawing alongside them, or sometimes it means ripping them specifically-sized lines as their drawings take shape, so we do our best to read the situation and respond accordingly.

Art, at its best, works to open minds. It shines with the potential to demonstrate a world of possiblity. Using this definition, the work produced by these patients is Art in the truest sense.

Any act of life-sized expression can be physically demanding, and Tape Art is no exception. We love the fact that our work is a workout, and delight in the physical challenge of "drawing big".

In the hospital, however, this aspect of Tape Art takes on added gravity. We work with staff to support patients in their efforts to overcome large physical and emotional hurdles, and the results tend to positively shock everyone involved.