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FOG WINDOW

Part of the BOO PALACE space was a room that we painting solid black and made into a small theater, with seating and a curtain that went up and down. The open curtain could reveal puppets or a frosted vellum rear-projection screen. We made it for BOO PALACE thinking that we would be doing live improvisational puppet shows, but our attention turned to backlit stop-motion animation, so I began to do more light abstraction experiments there. Ric was also into performing the light shows and we did a lot of shows for visitors.

After we stopped doing Boo Palace, my landlord and friend, Michael Criston, let me use the space for a few months until he rented it. I kept doing the light shows with help from Ric and Chris and Michael and Richard Gehr and inviting people to see it, as the space really was a little rudimentary theater. Michael really liked the show and he was totally supportive of the experiment. He made a tall orange lighting fixture that hung at the entrance to the lightshow theater. The light was on a rheostat and when it was time for the show to begin, we would give the visitors little flyers that served as programs for the show, then one of us would turn the light on from backstage and the audience would then have to feel their way into the inky blackness to the couches and chairs. The air would already be sweet with incense, the music would start, the curtain would go up and the lightshow would begin. After about 20 or 30 minutes the show would end and the curtain would go down and the lights would go out and the music would stop and the orange light would come back on.

Then if they wanted, they could come behind the curtain and see how the lightshow was made.