MacDowell Colony

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The 6 Foot Collaboratory is going to MacDowell Colony for the months of July and August. We will split out time: Elizabeth will represent us in July and Caroline will represent us in August. We will be working in Heinz Studio, pictured here.

Video Stills

Vanishing into the weather.

Spiral staircase on Lookout Mountain, GA.

Tea Boat Bags

Acknowledging the values embodied in everyday utilitarian objects, we celebrate the poetry of “user as protagonist” and misrecognized function to produce objects that use the language of product design to create narratives of precarious comfort and hopeful fragility rather than heroic sterility. If consumer goods live parasitically off planned obsolescence, our ephemeral objects declare a limited lifespan with the tender reality patched jeans or duct taped car windows.

Balloon Sketches

A Flying Tree from Elizabeth on Vimeo.


House from Elizabeth on Vimeo.

Building Over Bodies

Building Over Bodies from Caroline Woolard on Vimeo.

Video Demo

6Foot Collaboratory from Caroline Woolard on Vimeo.

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Cupped Hands

Lake MI visits NY from RI

At "Come and sit with us because we miss you" on the East River, November 10-12th.

Blind Boatbuilders Tea Ritual with Reliable Furniture

We used the platform between us to celebrate an origami tea ritual taken from 16th cen. Dutch shipbuilders going blind, no longer able to build large scale.

Reliable Table

Reliable Structures

Ice Candle: duration of hope

The shortest wish in history: short tests, heading towards the right atmosphere... needing outside footage for juxtaposition

Reliable Action

Roof test: great body/architecture scale better for a different action...

Reliable Action

Cupped Hands

Walking on Water

Pedestrian traffic is possible around the waters that contain Manhattan. A boat ride from artist Marie Lorenz around November 11-14 will carry our liquid curiosity further. Submerged or emerging candidates are: vertical supports with long lost horizontal planes (aka old docks).
For example, the west side Highway: off West 57th and Amsterdam or the 69th Street Bridge.

Urban Camping

Up on the overpass the night was wide open and blowing headlights like the sea. He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

(Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red, pg. 55)

Ice Candle

We are making absurd and/or pathetic objects whose material and formal properties convey moods (precarious comfort, hopeful fragility) that accumulate sensations for a larger narrative film with a script we are currently developing. The project could be classified as Romantic-Conceptual Art.

lake MI visits RI ocean

An installation at Nancy Austin's gallery in Newport, RI.