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Fykse, Kvam, Hardanger, Norway | 7th - 20th of April 2008

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The porta-projector can screen video or project slides onto any surface, at any site within a city that is accessible by foot. The projector is powered from a caravan battery through an inverter and is designed to be light and compact enough to move easily from place to place.

A portrait of a village- present the faces of the people on the buildings they live in.

Sille Storihle and I visited each household in Fykse village to take individual portraits. In most cases these where family units - parents and their children and in some cases other generations of the families who had lived in Fykse all their lives. We had scheduled appointments to visit each household and we also encountered many of the people on the street, returning home from work, driving a tractor, visiting the post box or in the case of the children riding bikes around the village and the schoolyard. This experience emphasized the closeness and interconnectivity of the community both on a personal, and geographic level. At the start of the Bluss Night event, myself and a Bluss volunteer guided the audience through the village, stopping with the porta-projector at each house to project the large scale portraits onto the vernacular architecture.

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