The images presented here are in the order of the development of the piece. Please scroll through from top to bottom to view the entire process. Newer images will be added to the bottom of the page until the process is complete.

This is the hallway, in which I plan to install the piece "Wanderland", prior to doing my first 'test' installation. The hallway is a narrow, interior space, off of which is a stairwell half open to the top floor of my house. Across from the stairwell is a wall with a door to a bathroom as well as two small doors for narrow, built in closet/cupboards. The doorway through which the picture is taken leads to a front hall/entry area, and is directly across from the main entrance to my house. At the opposite end of the hallway the door leads to the guest bedroom, which will be the room in which the piece "Look In Glass" will be installed. In the corner adjacent to the guest room door is an open doorway to the kitchen. The length of the hallway is approximately 4 yards/360 cm. The width is approximately 2 yards/180 cm. The ceiling height is approximately 96 inches/240 cm.

The hallway viewed from the guest bedroom doorway.

The hallway will be temporarily transformed into a tunnel, or rabbit hole using the following materials:

Black felt will cover the walls and doorways, cutting off the stairwell from the hallway. Entry and exit from the space will be behind the black felt hung in front of the doorways to the front hallway and the guest bedroom.

A glittery, black vinyl will cover the floor of the hallway.

The ceiling and wall space above the black felt will be painted with flat black paint.

Black tulle [larger mesh] will be hung below the light fixture and join into where the top of the black felt is hung from the walls.

Red "Classic 10" 100% Mercerized Cotton crochet thread will be woven through the black tulle.

At various distances and heights a silver binder clip will be attached to the red thread.

From a single silver binder clip a page of the loose leaf journal will be hung. 

Black felt hung to cover stairwell into downstairs hallway.

Black, glittery vinyl covering floor with black felt on walls.

Black felt covering walls, glittery, black vinyl covering floor, black tulle creating “ceiling".

These images document the test hanging of approximately eight pages of the loose leaf journal. My goal is to produce around 100 sheets total in order to fill the space with the pages at various heights and distances. Some of the pages are single sided so that the lack of imagery on the blank, white side will add contrasting areas at which the viewer traveling through the space can visually rest their eyes and mind.

Otherwise the space [and the viewer's perception of it] created by the installation is very full, a bit overwhelming, and confusing; much like Alice's fall down the rabbit hole or the experience of a person having a complex partial seizure as a result of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. However the viewer traveling through this space, navigating his or her way through the images can stop, grab hold of a page and examine it more closely should he or she choose to do so.

The space is meant to only be entered and explored by a single person at a time. He or she enters into the 'journal' and navigates his or her way through the images based upon his or her own choices. In a completely chaotic, uncontrolled space, the viewer must take control of the situation by whatever means he or she can in order to progress through the space. The movement of the viewer through the space will cause the pages to move, spin, altering the light which is filtered through the tulle. 

The following images are meant to give an idea of how the viewer might view the pages as he or she navigates through the space.

Notice the shadow of the black tulle on the painting.

Hanging method.

The white ceiling will be painted a flat black for the final installation so that the space recedes further, less reflection of light from the ceiling and the tulle disappears into the space causing a greater sense of floating of the pages within the space.

I will be holding a private viewing of Wanderland and Look In Glass on December 6.

I began the installation of Wanderland on Sunday November 30, 2014 for the showing to be held the following Saturday, December 6. My first step was to paint the ceiling and the walls to the top of the door-frame moldings a flat black.

Installing the black tulle through which the red thread and binder clip hanging structure will be sewn.

This photo shows the hallway after the ceiling and top portion of the walls have been painted flat black. At this point I began to question my original intention to hang the walls with a black felt. This would hide the stairwell and railing as well as the two closets, bathroom door, the molding and technical boxes on the wall opposite the stairwell.

While I debated covering the walls with the black felt, I began hanging the black tulle from the ceiling and stitching the red crochet thread and silver binder clips through the material. I spent about six hours Monday December 1 doing this. The stitching felt to me like a drawing exercise as I was creating the structure from which I would be hanging the journal pages. I also began thinking more about the meaning of the space as a passageway with many doors, molding and stair-rail and the significance of the space in relation to the space in which Look In Glass would be installed in.

This photo shows the hanging structure in front of the stairwell railing. At this point I decided to not cover the space with the black felt. However I did decide to black the stairwell with the felt by hanging it behind the railing. This would allow the railing to remain present in the space, but it would also appear to be a railing with out a stairway, leading nowhere.

After spending Monday 'drawing' the support structure from which the journal pages would hang, I spent Tuesday, December 2 painting the remainder of the hallway walls flat black. While the presence of the woodwork and doorways were desired in the space to keep it significance as a passageway within the piece, I did not like the presence of the white plastic technical boxes on the walls nor the old telephone outlet on the opposite wall.

I resumed installation of Wanderland the morning of Saturday, December 6. I begun by hanging black felt behind the stairwell railing in order to close off that space and create a stronger sense of the presence of the railing and the absence of the stairs.

Preparing to cover the floor with the black, sparkly vinyl. The canvas hung on the left wall covers the telephone outlet. It was painted in winter 2013 and is a painting in the Pituitary Portraits series which I undertook shortly after my diagnosis of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

The floor has now been covered with the black vinyl cloth. The white plastic technical boxes have been covered by a canvas which was begun prior to the Berlin residency this past summer, but completed in mid-November.

A close up view of the structure from which the journal pages will hang. In addition to the threads from which the binder clips hang I randomly stitched red thread through the tulle in the manner of an "automatic drawing" like those created by Lucio Fontana in the 1930s in response to the Surrealists' approach of drawing from the subconscious. I used a similar approach to the creation of the journal pages both in the machine stitching as well as the red line which appears in many of the pages.

Another view of the hanging structure and the recent painting, titled "Gary". The painting was done in response to the smile of a musician, mischievous yet calm and slightly mysterious.

A view of the hallway towards the door through which the viewer must pass to enter the space where Look In Glass is installed.

A view of the hallway during the installation of the journal pages from the doorway leading to the room where Look In Glass is installed. The pages were randomly hung in the space.

The journal pages were hung in a space between about six feet [183 cm] to four inches [10 cm] above the floor. This photo shows a lower hung page, just above the floor.

A view of the hallway with the pages being hung and the canvas on the wall.

A photo from the room in which the Look In Glass is installed back into Wanderland.

Wanderland journal pages with the sparkle floor

Just behind the entry doorway to Wanderland. A view of two white knights with the wood door and molding in the background.

A closer view of the journal pages from the doorway to the Look In Glass room.

A view in the middle of the passageway looking slightly up.

A view from the floor, laying in the center of the space. The stairwell railing floats in the lower left corner and a doorframe floats in the upper left corner. The tulle and red thread float above the pages.

Another view from the floor looking up at the pages. The stair railing floats in the lower right corner, the canvas "Gary" floats at the upper right.

Video: Looking up into the center of Wanderland 

The remaining photos were taken by viewers and depict the interaction of the pages, the textures, play of light and shadow and density of the installation.

Video: December 6, 2014. A filmed walk through of the installation of Wanderland and Look In Glass.