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Hello all from Leipzig!

Sorry about the long time between updates, I've been working hard in the studio for the past 6 weeks and good things are happening!

The biggest installation (I changed the name to Wonderlust) is up now in the Werkschau space. The opening was last Thursday the response was great. The exhibition has artists from all over the world, Germany, Lithuania, Australia, Korea, Japan, Romania, Turkey ... and they all bring beautifully different ideas. It's been an inspiration to connect with them and with the curators of the exhibition from Schloss Solitude. So far I have an offer for a solo exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia next year and have some other exciting possibilities things on the burner. I'm hoping to find a space in NY to show another generation of this piece in the winter.

Conceptually, the project has changed a bit (as is supposed to happen in a residency) from a landscape to a cityscape. On a macrocosmic level, as you walk into the Werkschau you see a city, but as you enter the installation, it turns into something between a Cabinet of Curiosities (Wunderkammer), a toy store, or my studio. The towers are up to 11 feet tall and you're surrounded by small kinetic sculptures, notes, wires, sounds, and sketches. The French and German curators from Schloss Solitude likened each tower to a contemporary art museum. Unfortunately it's been impossible to work out any streaming video - the wifi connections in Germany are few, far between, and weak, so I haven't been able to connect from the exhibition spaces at all.

I'm posting loads of photos and videos on my facebook page (please go ahead and add me if we're not 'friends' already) and am slowly getting them up to my website. There are also a few timelapse videos I'm putting together. All the documentation has been turning out quite well, so I will be putting together a nice catalog when I return to NY.

This week I'm creating all your carved and drawn portraits, continuously adding them into the installation. Like a city or an artist's studio, Wonderlust is evolving and growing every day.

In 10 days I head down to Stuttgart for the final one week project. I'm going to use some of the pieces from the current installation, and try to remix it with natural elements I find around Stuttgart, so it should be something similar to the original project proposal.

Thank you so much for your support! This has been a truly life/career-changing time in Leipzig and I could never have done it without you. I'm so grateful for you all!

Hello world!

Firstly, let me apologize for being a bit late to update you all. Thank you SO MUCH for your support! I just finished week one in Leipzig and everything has surpassed my expectations by far!.

Secondly, if you're one of my portrait people, carved or drawn, please send an email with your photo to jasonshogreen@gmail.com at some point in the next 3 weeks. If I know you on facebook or some other way, I'm happy to dig up a reference myself.

About the development of the projects:
I spent Week 1 experimenting, building a bit, sketching, and investigating the exhibition spaces. The spaces for all 3 projects are all really interesting and unique from each other. The Werkschau (Oct 1-8) is a dream space and right now I'm focusing on something that takes advantage of this amazing gallery (see images). It will be a group show, between 11 artists I believe, in this 10,000 sq ft space. I've never been presented with such an inspiring space and want to take full advantage of this shot at it.

I've changed the construction of the landscape from many small pieces into a large organic structure made of wood: scale lumber, sticks, etc (reminiscent of scaffolding or spiderwebs) which I'm using as a framework to build the forests, cities, skies, and more. Instead of being build on a single wall, the installation will sprawl onto the floor, around corners, and possibly overhead above the gallery visitors. The structure will have clearings for small scenes and all the elements from the KS video built into it. (see photos below for a very rougn idea).

I've attached a few photos of the Werkschau space, experiments in the studio, small robotic things, carvings, and early sketches of the concept. If you want to keep up to date, follow my tumblr: jasonsho.tumblr.com

Again, THANKS!
I couldn't do this without you.

All the very best,

Jason Sho Green

Hi All.

Firstly, thanks so much for supporting this project! I'm deeply touched by all of you. We have just over 24 hours left and are 67% funded, which places me in the nervous but cautiously optimistic range. If you can share the project in the next day it would be a great step to reaching the goal!

The last 2 weeks I was in Japan for some family business and was able to let the project retreat to my subconscious for a bit. It lead to some exciting developments, here's one. The walls and doors in my grandmother's house are covered in rice paper and it struck me to make some of the houses and structures like rice paper lanterns, so I can draw and paint on the front, and project and light them from within.

This is a projection of video from the bullet train from Tokyo to Sendai, but I'm thinking about live video from the robot, maybe sticking the projector on a servo motor to rotate it to different screens. Lots of possibilities here! (thanks, Caroline for letting me make a huge mess on the kitchen table and floor while I'm studio-less)

For those of you pledging at the zine level, here's a sample of what'll be going in. Last night I locked myself out of the apartment from 1230 am to 630am (no thanks, Caroline for being such a sound sleeper!), decided to buy a pen and notebook, and walk around NY all night drawing pictures. I was thinking it might actually be tolerable to hang out in Times Square at 430 am. Check out the whole story.

Thanks so much, everybody! I hope to be back here with good news tomorrow! Please spread the word if you can.

All the best,

Jason Sho Green