SWOON BUILDS A HOUSE
From Nola.com
Better known by her street-art alias Swoon, Curry is a New York-based superstar renowned for her alluring large-scale drawings of mythological men and women that she sticks to public walls with school paste. Hers is a kinder, gentler form of graffiti. Swoon also is famous for the rag-tag rafts and boats built from recyclables that she and friends float from place to place as a sort of nautical performance art.
She now plans to build a house on Piety Street. If the finished structure turns out anything like the charming doll-house-sized model, it will be a towering pixie temple with a star-shaped floor plan, a zigzag wrap-around porch and pointy cupola, adorned with assorted dormers and flying filigree. The house is meant to double as a domicile for visiting artists and a sort of walk-in musical instrument complete with built-in percussion machines and electronic tone producers of some sort.
Swoon, whose work is characterized in part by its temporary nature, acknowledged that she has “personally never tried to create a permanent house, a permanent structure.” She was invited to New Orleans by Delaney Martin (director of New Orleans Airlift, an organization meant to help artists travel), and has spent six months in cahoots with kinetic artist Taylor Shepherd, architect Wayne Troyer and others to make her dreamy dream-house a reality.
As she and Shepherd laughingly explained at their warehouse studio earlier this week, the house lacks a name, a construction schedule and sufficient funding. But considering Swoon’s past triumphs, we shouldn’t be surprised to see the whimsical design someday join the Crescent City’s list of architectural marvels.
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