In the California desert, in the Morongo Valley, I/Thee search for the project site for the Ghost House by scouring the winds of the various locations and, after finding the optimal location and building a wooden frame on site to create the "formal outline" of a house
Paradoxical creature, symbol of the past in the present, it is neither here nor there: it is the ghost of a house
Ghost House is an experiment in the manipulation of matter where form is shaped by the climate, the environment and the passage of time
Custom-cut sheets of canvas are impregnated with white glue and draped over the structure. Over the course of a few hours, the sheets crystallize into the shape that the strong mountain winds have designed on them: the final work is a three-dimensional snapshot of a specific moment in time.
It is the ghost of a house, an improbable structure, a representation of the past that exists and continues into the present without existing today or yesterday
The Ghost House is one of the poetic expressions of the three designer-educators of I/Thee, neal lucas hitch, martin francis hitch and kristina fisher, who disseminated their projects around the world with the intention of celebrating the "co-sensitivity" of everything in the environment: "living and non-living; past and present; you and me. Where some want to make distinctions, we want to shine a light on what we all have in common: to illustrate that the appearance of distinction is an illusion. Within this universe, there are not many things, but only one thing: one life, one love and one eternally temporary moment. The world is not made up of separate entities and forces that sometimes oppose each other; rather, all things arise from the same circle with a boundary and a perfectly superimposed Venn diagram that contains everything there is." (from I/Thee's creative project description)
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