happy accident

1015 Maple renovation update

The renovation of our residency fieldhouse at Hadden Park is taking longer than expected... but it'll be great once finished!  The first two photos below were taken on February 2nd: old floor gone, some walls stripped back.  The third is from just the other day: new floor in, new walls, and surfaces freshly painted.  The five of us are very excited about moving in - crossings all fingers and toes that it will happen soon.  I have been busy planning for upcoming projects - can't wait!  Note these photos are taken through the window as door locks have been changed during the reno too.

preliminary sketches

Preliminary sketches for a kiosk project that will be happening at the Burnaby Art Gallery (off-site) this summer: six artists, six programs, six locations, one kiosk.

old ideas new ideas

This morning I tried to find the hard copy of a paper I'd written during my first year of Architecture School.  Instead, this particular page fell out of one of my binders.  It's a bunch of random ideas taped onto a plastic sheet in summer 2005.  Post-Katrina, Bush-Era angst (and hope).

new card

today's dirty sketch

under Burrard Bridge

ten fifteen maple

Check out our new blog for the fieldhouse at Hadden Park:

tenfifteenmaple

And - our Google map locator:

1015 Maple St

We will officially be opening our doors after the renovations are complete - can't wait!

If you'd like to say hi or arrange to meet up in the meantime please contact: tenfifteenmaple{at}gmail

PB, HG, CYM

phthalo blue
hooker's green
cadmium yellow middle

pre reno!

Yesterday David and I documented the pre-reno fieldhouse with some photos.  David took some test shots first with his digital camera (shown here) and then we chose four shots for the 4x5 camera. Can't wait to see the prints!

godzilla vs godzilla

the state of things

This is the bathroom in our new Fieldhouse Residency.  The shower still works!  But there is no toilet.  The City is going to replace basic plumbing for us and also remove & replace the floor tiles in the main space (which are full of asbestos).

Luckily we are allowed to occupy the space pre-reno while it's still in this weird state.  First group meeting there tonight!

welcome to the fieldhouse

Ok here's the announcement:

In collaboration with Justine Chambers, Josh Hite, Billy Marchenski, and Kristen Roos, I am going to be taking part in one of the Vancouver Park Board's new 'fieldhouse' studio residencies!

It is a two-year residency held in one of the city's disused park fieldhouses where park caretakers used to live.  We will each be there at least one day a week to work on psychogeographic community projects.

'Our' fieldhouse is in the beautiful Hadden Park, situated between Kits Beach and the Maritime Museum.

Please contact me if you'd like to drop by!
hello{at}rebeccabayer.com

sketch

click to enlarge

update

I've been chipping away at various projects but not showing or saying too much about them too soon because the projects are bigger than myself alone.

I enjoyed going back out to the Lasserre building at UBC this week on two occasions.  First, to present a talk for Annabel Vaughn's 'node' studio - she kindly asked me show the students a few of the projects I have done over the past few years which have been situated in the public realm.  I showed: 'turf skirts,' 'fact/fiction worlds series,' 'ludo in soho,' 'egg + dart,' 'concrete pillow bench,' 'verb tests,' 'shelf project,' 'seed balls hung from viaduct,' 'floor project,' 'moving space diorama,' and then finished with some background info on one of the projects I am currently developing.

My second trip out to Lasserre this week was to take part in a studio crit for the first years - they did localized string installations based on some gathered drawing data about a specific part of an iconic building.  There's a buzz in the air these days about string installations!  Or maybe I am all of a sudden more aware of this type of activity based on our own string installation earlier this summer...

David and I are settling in to our new studio.  Below is a photo of the first thing I made there (after taking down our string installation and moving all our stuff in).

sewing a space snapshot sequence

come say hello @ 222
RB and DG

prep

 DG photos

new studio space sewing exercise

So! David and I have a new studio space. The room is a simple white box with a few quirks. It seemed like a good chance to try out the 'sewing a space' idea - before we actually move in.  We strung it up late one night and then left the door open.

sewing a space

with bricklayer's string...  more to come soon!

viaduct curtain progress

click to enlarge - this is the most recent rendering. 

david's legs