2 weeks away from the opening night i bought 126 (45cm x 45cm x 45cm) boxes n painted them white ... mainly did the job on my own at first but got incredible help from friends...Junior, Mona, Raji, Aya, Azzim, Talal, ... etc. It was a painful process even more painful when they first came in n said "why didnt u buy white boxes?" ............ "CUZ I COULDNT FIND ANY....."
At one point i was suppose to have sound in this project but we couldnt meet the deadline my sound guy and myself, it was my fault i didnt give Erick Brunjes enough time rather 4 hours for a 15 min video...
im rushing thru all the small pieces here to get to the end...the main art work was done just had to execute it at the gallery with getting the boxes standing like walls for the projectors to display on them.
We had 10 hours to set up n have everything done for the opening...a night before i had been to the gallery transported my boxes and closed some of them up. Had a few issues with how to stick the boxes together, had to use a lot of wood glue and marble slabs to keep the wall of boxes sturdy and safe from clumsy audience who eventually will bump into them without bearing in mind how fragile they would be on their own.
The actual arrangement of the installation had to change, from a square room (3 walls out of boxes) and a normal solid wall on one side...it ended up looking like this....
video of the final presentation will be uploaded in a few days need to clear out some space on my pc first...but there it was...i will also post the photos that were in the photo album in the order of their progression...
