Hello.  Welcome to my second blog posting about the gallery installation currently open for touching at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado called



As the name implies, the installation is meant to be touched, felt, explored with one's hands as well as one's eyes and ears - and even one's nose.  As I will be adding to the installation during the time it is open one of the additions will be adding scents - things that will engage one's sense of smell.

The installation is an experiment, and as such, I will be responding to my own inclinations for additions, changes, edits as well as considering the responses of visitors.  If you come in to explore, come back.  Things will subtly change.

Here are some images to help you begin to orient to the site and how it is laid out.  Difficult to do with stills, but a start.  They do not document all the elements of the installation.  
I will include more pics, with details, in a later post - as I begin to discuss different conceptual components, histories, materials and surfacing created on site.

Entering the gallery, oriented toward the east wall.  
                                   
  
  

 This is turning from the east to see some of the north wall.

   

One facing the north wall.

One facing the west wall.


One of the south wall, and a table on the other side of that wall.



Moving out the main entrance of the gallery space and across to an alcove on the other side of a building entry walkway (that leads to studios and the entryway to the south gallery). 

 

Perhaps a floor plan is in order.  We shall see.

*Quick reminder.  There are no labels, titles, descriptions or artist statements available on site.  I have posted nothing that might impede a simple exploration of the installation by visitors.  However, I will be using the names of works when writing about them to help with clarifications, explanations, definitions, etc.

Thank you.  Hope you come back for my next posting about 











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