Getting the color correct was the final decision made on the prototype. YELLOW is a color of hope, friendship and goodwill. Yellow radiates, brightens, and uplifts spirits. With so many difficult and emotional concepts being addressed and faced within ourselves, we must be able to hold on to hope for a better future.

Originally, I had envisioned using the same material for the warp and weft - in the pre-Covid vision for the project that was more ephemeral and literal. As I adapted my vision for the structures, and as I began building ideas at full scale it was easier to envision how potential materials would work.

The project started to become real, finally, once I started building the prototype. One to one scale, mentally making sense of the steps that will ultimately become my method for building four of them, and evaluating the physicality of the built-structure - visually and how the body experiences it.

With an architecture background, and growing-up seeing my dad’s office filled with scale-models, I knew that building a few scale models of this project would help me make sense of some things - even if they were only confirming visual proportioning and appropriate scale. A prototype was necessary for truly working out the details I would be facing.

In March, I began brainstorming ways to adapt my vision of this project in the face of a world-wide pandemic that appears to have no end in sight. The shelter-in-place order, the need to maintain distance from others, and to not gather in groups meant my vision for the project needed to adjust. The fact that it was to be installed outside was the one thing it had going for it.

When I first envisioned this project in the Spring on 2019, I imagined a symbolic, ephemeral modern art installation. This initial vision has been the anchor-point over the last year as I took steps to make it a reality. It remains a truly pure expression, with a surrender to literal unweaving by natural forces.