About the Nesting Project
This project is an opportunity to think about our relationships to nesting.
A nest is a home. It is a safe place where we feel secure. It is where we have and raise our children. We practice coupledom and singledom there. To nest is to settle in and be domestic. Everyone knows how to nest instinctively but we all do it differently.
The project evolves in three phases.
1. Building. This is the part where I contact public park gardeners in San Francisco, ask them to save their leftover sycamore whips from pollarding for me so that I can use them for an art project. Frantic borrowing of vans and trucks, skipping out on meetings to chase stick pile leads left on my voicemail at work, and happy hours placing each stick into place ensue.
It is amazing how each stick seems to know exactly where it wants to be in the nest. It is time consuming in that happy mindless way that coloring or building a fort is time consuming. Afternoons fly by. The nest gets stronger. Soon I will be able to invite people into it.
2. Habitation. I invite people to come and sit in my nest. Single people, pairs and groups. Old couples, new couples, traditional and non-traditional couples. Babies and old people. Relationships pros and relationship dropouts. All of them are invited to come an sit in my nest while I photograph them.
3. Hatching.
The pictures are born. The nest has been well lived in. I hang the pictures,
have an opening, we all come and look at ourselves and each other and
maybe even learn something about nesting.
See nesting Results