I had intended on being about finished with the studio at this point, but alas…the heavy rains in the last couple of weeks have brought unexpected plan-changes, accompanied by inevitable and invaluable life-lessons to boot. The garage has flooded almost every day, and water’s been building up under the stage floor, and behind the structure.
We started working on an art space in the garage part of the Chateaux. The original plan was to make a stained-glass studio for kaleidoscope building, but it’s turning into more of a multi-use community art space + music / workshop / earth-shaking venue (We took out a wall between the garage and a mud-floored weird closet space, and built a new floor, which is about a foot higher than the garage floor. oops! A STAGE!)
Here is a”before” pic of the garage, and of the creepy muddy room on the left (I was originally gunna make it a dark-room, but who needs another dark room when there are already so many closets in the universe???
Here’s Norma dressed up as a two-by-four after we tore the wall out and built a support wall:
Dave playing the first song on the surprise stage that came when we put in a floor….
And Kaji showed me how to wire electricity.