Former collaborator Justine Light phoned me up and proposed working on a series of new short videos featuring her work at the intersection of costumes and set design with my work at the intersection of sculpture and video. Upon arrival she had developed her ideas into little stories and I had built a collection of new music.
Combining all of these ideas we began a series of short productions. Each with only one day of preproduction, one day of shooting and one day of editing. These limitations were meant to keep us creatively nimble. We brought in local talent from the Chicago art and music scenes to activate her our nests.
In our definition a “nest” in a space that is at once comfortable to the inhabitant and perhaps disgusting to an outsider. A bird’s nest might be filled with nasty feathers, excrement, and bones but it is the place that the bird is nurtured and nourished. A teenagers bedroom is disgusting to a visitor but is very comfortable to the boy. Visiting a colleague or friend in their nasty cubical or trashy car is a mix of emotions as you navigate your relationship and their environment.
In this series our nests are both physical or psychological spaces where comfort is at once a good and sometimes an unfortunate reality.