A Room to Work In

Hello Walkers— A lot has happened since the last dispatch. It feels like I’m finally past most of the list of things I decided to do this year, so fair warning: this one might be long. Ludo and I celebrated our wedding, I bought some steel, I built a copy of our studio inside my laptop, and my website got redesigned. Again. Let’s start with the steel. While we were in Tbilisi, Ludo and I went to the infamous Eliava Market to buy steel for our wedding. Romantic, I know. If you’ve never been, Eliava is where Tbilisi keeps its nuts and bolts, imported and locally made, along with light fixtures, pipes, and every construction material you can think of. It’s basically a little Akihabara Electric Town inside Tbilisi, minus the pachinko parlors. The steel was for Wirescapes, the exhibition we first made together in Tokyo: my urban photographs, her arrangements of reused cables and technological odds and ends, and a steel cube holding the whole thing together. A childhood friend who’s handy…