Deconstructing Clague

I am drawing on walls, paper walls that is.  The first drawings that are going on these walls are a piece of Louisiana silver, a series of miniature portraits and a Clague painting - all from the permanent collection of the LSU Museum.

I used to visit this museum in the sixties and seventies with my mother.  I did not realize then that the collection had just formed in 1959 and originally with the objective of housing British antiques.  The objective later changed and while some of the original British pieces still remain the collection houses a wide variety of objects and artwork many about the history of Louisiana.  

Over the next year, I will be creating a paper room, roughly 10 x 12 x 9' tall whose walls can be read front and back with drawings from the LSU Museum collection.  Many of the objects that I am drawing will be from the period rooms that I visited as a child  that are no longer on display.  The above 1/4 of a Richard Clague painting "Farm in St. Tammany" from the mid-1800's is a portion of what I am working on right now.

I look forward to posting sections of walls soon but the entire piece will take this next year to complete.  It will first be showing in Hattiesburg, MS at the Hattiesburg Arts Council in spring of 2016 and later that year in North Carolina at Gaston College. 

The room itself will be suspended from the ceiling and will be open for visitors to sit on an ottoman inside of the room as well as to walk around the exterior.