The Kid Gets Out of The Picture

2016

the LADG, Materials & Applications

The Kid Gets Out of the Picture is a contemporary update on the aesthetic principles of early 19th century English landscape architecture. By the earlynineteenth century, practitioners of the English picturesque had invented a catalog of objects (follies, ha-has, viewpoints) that worked to produce the pictorial effects of landscape painting within real space. Lumps, clumps, and masses made it possible, in a sense, to occupy the picture.

The Kid Gets Out of the Picture was a three-month long exhibition that returns to the catalog of nouns developed by the picturesque to ask how these tactics can be deployed in reverse, extracting the qualities of images and literalizing them in the real world.

My role in this project was to see the completion of the fabrication and construction. This involved on site management of piecing the installation together along with developing techniques for the application of the plaster surface.