When I was a freshman at
@risd1877 , my 3D foundation professor Alfred De Credico brought our entire class into a church, handed us a length of rope, and said, “I’m going to leave, come back at 3:00, and you need to work as a team to change the context of this Church by using this rope — only this rope.”
For the next four hours, we struggled and argued, and ultimately got nowhere, and when Al returned, he explained the intentions of the assignment: to show how difficult it is to work as a team and also how the rope could be utilized in the simplest of ways and immediately transform the room — as a coil on the floor.
I didn’t really understand what he was getting at at the time, but I have thought about it nonstop since. And in our recent collaboration with
@dienstanddotter , it was top of mind when thinking about our art interventions within the gallery.
Here, a French church cabinet with putti houses a Russian cross within and is the focal point of the vignette, including Swedish furniture, Venetian and Swedish glass, and a giant, baroque, oversized crown from Italy — all from the 17th Century. The cabinet, especially, is notable. It’s from one of author, curator, and art historian Lars Sjöberg’s most famous houses, Regnaholms Slott, situated on an inlet in Lake Regnaren.
So, how did we change the context within the gallery? A roll of waxed string, some stems of fresh dill and magically suspended Asian cucumbers were our solution that day, and whether or not that was the right solution doesn’t really matter. What does, though, is that this time, teamwork did wonderfully prevail and even more so, it was fun.
Thank you, Jill and team Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter for being such wonderful crewmates.
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