Everything Must Go
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts

Our work fundamentally depends on relatively dry conditions. Our yearly return to this wall is on premeditated dates that have no rain dates attached to them. We are well remembered for working on a 52,000 sq foot mural that circumnavigated the entire museum. This drawing, besides taking five weeks, was an act of the rarest perseverance because it was completed during an April that gave central Massachusetts a record-breaking rainfall. This concrete wall does an excellent job of inhaling and absorbing the rain as it comes down. And if the wall is warm, it will return to you a fairly dry wall in a relatively short period of time. When we arrived to create this drawing we came at the tail end of a raucous rainstorm that had left a slowly retreating curtain of water hanging from the top of the building. The top of this drawing is an exact tracing of the waterline drawing made by the rain. By the time our work was done, there was no evidence of water anywhere. A dear friend of ours was the single, green, character standing in a sea of tape patterns. Each pattern are carefully constructed reverberations and reactions to the shapes they are constrained by.