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Do Ho Suh, Fallen Star, 2012.
We followed Do Ho's work for a while
before inviting him to the campus.
He's thought about how your home is a part of you.
He wanted to make this a physical house
that had come from afar.
People have compared it to The Wizard of Oz
and that tornado picking up the house
and sending it up into the air.
This project, more than any other piece
in the Stuart Collection,
involved a collaboration of different people
in different disciplines.
It was an experiment like all the others.
But it was the most complicated, the most complex
from a standpoint of construction and design.
The cottage was built down on Warren Mall
where everybody could see it over a period of months,
along with a sign showing its eventual resting place.
Then one day in November,
it was hoisted up to the top of the building.
The construction workers,
the company that orchestrated the whole thing,
Pacific Southwest Structures, were truly brilliant
in making this completely unique
and intricate thing come off.
This artwork does something and exists on different levels
in a way that I have never seen
that I think is unique
among all works of art in public space.
Because it is, on the one hand, so very, very public,
way up on top of the building
and visible for miles around.
Then, on the other hand,
it has this abrupt and amazing look from directly below,
cantilevered out over the side.
As you get closer to it and go upstairs
and go into the garden and go into the house itself,
it acquires this very personal dimension.
The house is very familiar.
Once you're in, it is familiar,
but it is not familiar-feeling.
You have to adjust just as Do Ho did when he came here.
You have to adjust both mentally and physically,
in the case of this house, to your new surroundings.
Of course, we had to furnish the house
and it had to have wallpaper.
But the wallpaper guy was luckily a perfectionist.
It's on a tilt,
so it was very hard.
There's not a plumb line in the whole house.
There are comfortable couches and chairs,
everything's scaled down.
We found smallish things in thrift shops and around.
Some of it is genuine antique and some of it is not.
But it's a mix, like all homes,
of various household items,
including family photographs,
including a television which works.
There are clocks that have the correct time.
There are lights that come on at night.
It does appear that somebody is living there.
The garden is intimate.
It's scaled-down.
The bricks of the pathway,
the furniture inside and out,
in the garden is scaled down.
All of the plants are selected
because they have smaller leaves and
because they can be seen as slightly miniaturized,
the house itself is about 80 percent of full size.
So it feels like a full-sized house,
but it feels like a very, very small house.
The door jam, for instance,
is somewhat lower than a normal door jam.
A tall person has to duck when they step inside.
Nothing in the house is straight except for one thing,
the chandelier that hangs straight down from the ceiling,
which looks for all the world
like an incredibly magically levitated chandelier.
There were many who said it couldn't be done.
How could you possibly do this?
But with persistence and
the collaboration and cooperation of this whole team,
we made it happen and we think it's an unforgettable one
that will be in many people's minds
for generations to come.
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