Installation for Responding to Darkness...
by Michael St.Germain

This is the work I made for Responding to Darkness at Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, MA .

The frame of the house measures 8.5 feet high, 6 feet wide and 6 feet deep and was generously constructed by Atlantic Works Gallery preparator George Kougeas.




When George finished framing, I shingled the structure with cardboard panels, dropped in a simple socket with a light bulb and populated the interior with paper mache objects.




Important Note: This exhibition is presented in the dark. Gallery lights are turned off and all gallery windows are boarded up with sheet rock from the inside.

From this point on, all photos in this posting were taken with a flash. All interior shots of the house were illuminated by a 60 watt bulb (which is a part of the work) and a camera flash.




The house's solitary opening is at chest level, measures about 2 feet square and faces the corner of the gallery. Again, the gallery is dark.





This opening gives visual access to the interior which is illuminated by a 60 watt light bulb. The photo above was taken by Paul Weiner.




Inside the house are six of the paper mache objects I made during the past eight months. The tallest object is 7.5 feet high.




Here are a couple of details of the interior taken from outside of the house.













Here is a short video of the interior...


Link to Atlantic Works Gallery: www.atlanticworks.org

Link to the Responding to Darkness show blog: www.respondingtodarkness.blogspot.com