Ongoing construction photos of the ICA•RDI Embassy (The Status of the Artist Embassy) ~ Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura to be placed here
ICA•RDI Embassy will use Farley Mowat main doors and windows - backyard construction in the snow, January 2014
The Skids:
The Skids:
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1/4" plastic skid plate on bottom
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May 2014, after a long cold winter, finally able to work outside without freezing. The first job was to mount the skids on the bottom. Two 2"x6"x14' hardwood skids with metal end clamp attachments on each end are bolted to the floor joist, with a quarter inch plastic skid plate screwed to the bottom. Next step is to box in the frame by installing plywood floor and plywood inner walls.
May 2014 - ICA•RDI trailer & pontoon backyard construction site
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ICA•RDI Embassy (Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura)
Painting the plywood floor & outside of interior walls of the ICA•RDI Embassy with Fisherman’s Paint (they don’t make it anymore) June 2014
Painting the plywood floor & outside of interior walls of the ICA•RDI Embassy with Fisherman’s Paint (they don’t make it anymore) June 2014
"Fisherman’s Paint" June 2014
Gone the way of the dory fisherman.
Gone the way of the dory fisherman.
Laying the foundation for the ICA•RDI Embassy - Birthday Photo July 5, 2014. ~ “Ideas have an economy when institutions give them currency.” ~ ICA•RDI takes the Presentation Institute’s authority away, because why would I want to “exhibit” anywhere other than under the framework of ICA•RDI. BL Summer 2014
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ICA•RDI Embassy ~ installing the interior walls, mid July 2014. Interior walls are half inch plywood, fir, finished one side. The floor is three quarter inch plywood.
Waiting for Conferrals - ICA•RDI Embassy (Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber & Camera Obscura) with all the inner 1/2” fir plywood walls up, August 2014. The next stage is to mount the bus bellows on the back, as the top curvature of the bellows will determine the roof trusses.
Mop Heads - ICA•RDI Ambassador cleans up the ICA•RDI Embassy -Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura for the promotion of the 'Status of the Artist', September 2014
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Cleaning the bellows to be mounted on the backend of the ICA•RDI Embassy, July 2015 - Waiting for the welder. |
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July 2015
The welder finally came by, he wanted a template of the backend where the bellows are to be attached. Note to welder: I'm getting just like my father, writing notes over everything… 
Bus bellows to be mounted to the backend of the ICA•RDI Embassy. ICA•RDI Ambassador meets with David Corkum, CEO of Corkum Enterprizes (Chester Basin, Nova Scotia - 902 279 0568) and his assistant to discuss the installation of the bus bellows, July 2015
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ICA•RDI Embassy - Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura
On Dec. 2, 2015, after over four month, I finally retrieved the ICA•RDI Embassy from the welder who was charged with constructing a roof with two Farley Mowat ship’s windows as skylights, and mounting the bus bellows and fabricating a cone “lens” shape for the end of the bellows. The welder had a variety of reasons why this work took so long to complete; I was locked in having given him an advance for the materials. That’s behind us; I now look forward to working on the many details that need to be completed on the ICA•RDi Embassy (e.g. both inside electrical and outside surface skin) without being dependent on someone else. This work will be done this winter in a friend’s boat building shed in Bayport, Nova Scotia, just a few kilometers south of Lunenburg.
ICA•RDI would like to thank ‘Arts Nova Scotia’ for their support regarding the on-going research & development of the ICA•RDI Embassy - Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura.
On Dec. 2, 2015, after over four month, I finally retrieved the ICA•RDI Embassy from the welder who was charged with constructing a roof with two Farley Mowat ship’s windows as skylights, and mounting the bus bellows and fabricating a cone “lens” shape for the end of the bellows. The welder had a variety of reasons why this work took so long to complete; I was locked in having given him an advance for the materials. That’s behind us; I now look forward to working on the many details that need to be completed on the ICA•RDi Embassy (e.g. both inside electrical and outside surface skin) without being dependent on someone else. This work will be done this winter in a friend’s boat building shed in Bayport, Nova Scotia, just a few kilometers south of Lunenburg.
ICA•RDI would like to thank ‘Arts Nova Scotia’ for their support regarding the on-going research & development of the ICA•RDI Embassy - Mobile Amphibious Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura.
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December 6, 2015 - beautiful day on the south shore, 12º C. - winched the ICA•RDI Embassy into the boat shed today (kind of a 45º pull - winch on the back of the truck to a pulley at the back end of the shed to pull the Embassy straight in).
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ICA•RDI Embassy Art Presentation Chamber/Camera Obscura in boat shed - winter 2015-16 
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Camera Obscura Development - aluminum structure ("lens mount") mounted on front of bus bellows (inside view)
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ICA•RDI Residence June 2016
ICA•RDI Embassy @ ICA•RDI Residence placed on the front lawn June 2016
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ICA•RDI Embassy spent the winter in a friend's boat shed, in June 2016 it was moved to the front lawn of the ICA•RDI Residence for the final phase of construction. Basically the main structural form is completed, this summer will focus on the many remaining details, like an outside skin, electrical (track lighting,etc), support structure for the bellows movement, signage, etc.
ICA•RDI Residence with ICA•RDI Embassy on front yard - public construction publicity, summer 2016 (note: Camera Obscura Side Door in photo above)
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Art Presentation Chamber Door
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articulated bus bellows determine height of camera end and curvature of roof |
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Grassy Knoll - In the Spring 2018 the ICA•RDI Embassy - Art Presentation Chamber & Camera Obscura was moved to the backyard of the ICA•RDI Residence where test photographs will be created shooting from the grassy knoll at the magnolia tree.
