Day Four: Tuesday: The drawing at the home of the Roleke's

We were told that we would be working in the home of an artist and friend of the museum. Carolina, from the museum, was not kidding.  This was the first home to escape the pinpoint accuracy of our magic phones.  This almost resulted in a completely random household getting a mini-mural made in it.  When we finally located the two-story house in the woods, we were introduced to Ms. Roleke.  A quick tour of the house revealed an incredible body of work that she had created.  We are not sure if it classifies as "irony", but because we were in the house of someone who was a prolific maker of images, we found that a vast majority of the vacant spaces had been used as foster homes for the army of framed pieces she had created over the years.  The house was bountiful with objects, books, artwork and art supplies.  Capping one end of this two story structure was a grand, open ballroomish type space with a two story stone fireplace surrounded by enormous, carved, stoic pieces of furniture.  Colin and I live in a space with some fairly epic pieces of furniture that takes a gaggle of burlies to hustle around... and here we faced an epic couch piece that was beyond our capacity to move.  This was by far the largest interior space we had visited thus far.  The two things that stood out to us was the towering stone fireplace and the overall openness of the entire room.

The fireplace was of a stone construction, held together by concrete.  In many ways it looked like rock climbing wall.  Upon the mention of rock climbers we quickly envisioned a drawing that would feature people climbing up this vertical surface.  From the climber, theoretical safety lines would lackadaisically stream out to all corners of the room.  Michael set about on a short ladder to draw the climber on the rocks and Colin took two-inch tape and crimped it into long 20 to 40 foot strands that had the look and appearance of ropes.  Our host treated us to some great exchanges about the world of art making and art breaking.  It was refreshing to use the tape to create lines cutting through the open spaces of the room, about ten feet off the ground.  Compositionally, we thought it would be fun to draw a figure on the horizontal base of the fireplace that had not practiced the proper safety regulations and thusly had gone from the vert to the horz.