The actual creation of the letter forms seemed daunting at first, but was not as difficult as I expected. Even though it was not very difficult, we did underestimate the amount of time it would take to create the letters.
After thinking of several locations, we decided on one natural location and one urban location: outside the design building and in the library. Deciding not to paint our letters helped them blend in more naturally between the trees at our first and primary location. We wanted the word condense to look as if it had been there for some time and evoke the idea of a fence or a bike twisted and overgrown into a tree. To create this idea we placed it between two trees and added leaves underneath and on top of the letters. The only problem with this location was that we had to wait for the shadow of Budig to retreat. Otherwise, I think it was our most effective location.
In the library we did three other installations: an elevator and two different placements between the bookshelves. The elevator generally is a generally uncomfortable place and people are condensed into it. To evoke this feeling we set our letters all the way against the wall and tried to make the light
treatment intimidating and eerie. Our other two installations at the library were between the stacks, where knowledge is condensed into books and books are condensed into rows. We spread our letters out across two rows of shelves for one and spaced out the C, O, and N and condensed the D, E, N, S, and E for the other to reflect this.
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