Busy Weekend

Taking Down Bloom

I was up in Bellingham on Friday and Saturday taking down John Grade's instillation at the new Whatcom museum. The original plan was to walk them to the bay and thrown them in the water like he did at the show over in England last summer. You can see the video of that here. But at the last hour there was a change of plan. You can read all about the controversy here. So we had to come up with a new plan. In the end it turned out really well and it ended up being much more public and city involved. You can see some photos from the Bellingham Herald here. I'm working on putting together a video that Moorea and I shot of the event but in the mean time I have some photos. 

First off lets have a look at the pristine waters of Bellingham bay.

Beautiful Bellingham.

This was the original location where we were going to toss the sculptures in the bay.
 

Here is the start of the procession at the museum. There were about 100 people there at the start and then a few hundred when we got to the end.
 

Once the procession began I started taking video with my camera so you will have to wait a while until you can see just what happened to the sculptures but below you can see all that was left of them.
 

There were nine pieces in the procession and all that remained in the gallery was this loan piece which was partially melted away by the pool of black ink. 

 You can see the rest of the photos here.