photo by MNKitemanMy pal John Nussbaum and I built 5 Shanties as part of the 2009 Art Shanty Projects. Here's why:
One of the great pleasures in ice fishing is spending time in close quarters with your closest friends playing cards with a beat up deck of cards that smell like an eelpout and talking and laughing.
Nowadays, we hardly sit at the same table and interact face to face with each other. As families, we eat in shifts or on the fly. We communicate more through our phones and email than we do with our own smiles, eyes and touch.. With the increasing popularity of video game systems, gameplay has become less intimate as people sit on a sofa facing the television instead of each other.
By creating 5 tiny little dicehouses designed around 2-4 people sitting close together playing games together, we hope to rekindle the warmth and art of face to face interaction and gameplay for our visitors.
Each dICEHOUSE will be heated exclusively by the warmth of conversation and the closeness of the people within it.
Check out the dICEHOUSES bLOG for more info.
