Megan and Murray McMillan

“The sowers,” “the soldiers,” Hades and Persephone.

We finished recording Mountainside’s two videos yesterday. This photo shows “the runners” and “the thinkers”. The cast blew us away.

These videos are part of the installation premiering at Purdue University in Indiana on August 29th, and will be available on our website soon after.

The last nine (of seventeen) costumes.

These are most of the costumes for one of the two videos in the Mountainside installation.

The mountain is skinned, the set is almost finished. Special thanks to Chris Newman who has interned with us during the mountain’s construction.

Today we skin the mountain. Notice that the vertical posts that hold the grid inside the mountain are cut at the point and angle of the mountain’s surface slope. This will allow us to stretch the mountain skin through the posts. Each post has a dowel rod inside it to “Lego” it securely at the slope intersection.

Continuing images of our work in progress: the mountain under the saddles is starting to take form.

Here are the recently finished flying “Saddles” for our upcoming performance installation Mountainside. Use the dolly in the background as a legend for scale. They each have two cables that control up/down and left/right. Click here for the source collage.

Tomorrow: a picture of the Mountainside film set under construction. Megan and I are looking for performers and “giant saddle” puppeteers for the July 31 film shoot, contact us if you’re interested.

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