Solemn Pledge
Solemn Pledge
Solemn Pledge
I have to say aloud that if we had our way, no one would know about the home we made in the mall. The intention for creating our apartment was fundamentally a quest for domestic bliss. It was an extremely involved process and we have gotten a lot of requests today to share more of it.
We have decided amongst ourselves that we should share some of the experience. Please be patient with this process; it was a long journey for us. It was spread out over four years and was never fully resolved or actualized to the degree we wanted. The project was interrupted far from where we wanted to take it, as though a canvas was wrenched from our grasp mid-painting. It was very much a work in progress. We were still an extra bedroom and fully-functioning plumbing away from pure comfort.
Above is an image from the space as it was being put together.
It is a photograph of paper-towels and lemon-fresh pledge. Isn’t it strangely exciting that that is so utterly commonplace? It was an endless source of fascination for us that all the mundane details of our domestic dwelling were about as normal as they could be - but in the context they were in, they became suspenseful.
Today was a long and strange one. Today’s events and interest in the apartment took us away from our main focus - which was completing the upload of over 500 videos to youtube. We are completing that task tonight and also sending up all those videos to our myspace world... though to be honest we haven’t figured out a graceful way to locate our videos on myspace . . . we know they are there though.
Thank you everyone for your interest and support. We have received an outpouring of questions and requests for documentation and video. We will do our best to answer those questions, share images, and try to articulate what it is like to try to build a life inside a mall.
From a response we read on a forum today - from the UK:
“How facinating would it be to *live* amongst shoppers and people
going about their daily lives...In a shopping mall?
I work in a shoppinh mall and honestly, that idea is....amazing. Its
perfectly viable....When i think about it, the servise corridors in
my mall is full of random doors that perhaps lead nowhere.
Right, thats it, thmorra im takin me couch to work and opening all
the doors in The MetroCentre.”
And we just read this article from Bob Kerr.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007