Due North

Site Specific Installation
Rear-projected video and 2 channel sound

At Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and architecture school, I worked with architecture students to create maps from memory. I created a route: a straight line between two points of significance: one of aesthetic value on the Taliesin grounds and one of social importance in the neighboring community of Spring Green.
From this came a video which would be an extension of the idea of outreach. Interviews with area residents, architecture students and even some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s contemporaries and family members determined which views and sites were selected for the installation.

The end result was a rear projection installation which used the largest window in Mr. Wright’s home on the crest of a large hill. Looking at his home, and facing North toward the small town of Spring Green, members of of both communities came together to watch the steady advance through the landscape (and even through the very building that hosted the projection), until finally, they were transported from Taliesin to the center of Spring Green.