Client: Soliloquy Fine Arts
Location: Portland, OR, United States
Completion date: 2024
Artwork budget: $800
Project Team
Project Coordinator / Gallery Owner
Ruth Meijer
Soliloquy Fine Arts
Artist
Kaitlyn Carr
Kaitlyn Carr
Overview
500 pieces of Dupont Tyvek© wheatpasted outside of Soliloquy Fine Arts in Portland, Oregon. As an extension of Carr’s temporary installation on a 6-story SmartPark, “3000 Yellow Rectangles on a Parking Garage”, this work similarly activates space – creating dialogues with the architectural structure to provide viewers a brief moment of relief, joy, and contemplation. Each rectangular unit is modular, and when combined, form dynamic patters that disrupt the typical order and function of the cinder block construction of the building. The careful placement is meant to evoke joy and curiosity, inviting people to engage in a sensory dialogue with their environment.
Goals
The careful placement of each Dupont Tyvek© rectangle introduces a sense of play and wonder in its collective experience. Carr hopes to draw people into a deeper relationship with place and transform our everyday environments into something unexpected.
Process
Soliloquy Fine Arts is an art gallery run by Ruth Meijer in Portland, Oregon. Together, Carr and Meijer collaborated on a design to transform the parking garage adjacent to the gallery. The installation was completed by Carr and was unveiled in conjunction with a pop-up film screening in July 2024.