Housework, chores, grunt work.
It doesn't matter what you call them, it's all things you have to do over and over and over again.
Local artist Susan Barton-Tait decided to showcase those efforts in a creative light by putting together an exhibit called Home Making that can be seen at the Rustad Galleria in Two Rivers Gallery until Feb. 2.
Barton-Tait will host a free artist's talk Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. to explain the exhibit.
"Essentially it's about a house and the repetitious actions people do in a house," said Barton-Tait. "It started because I lived in a house that I called the smallest house known to man. It had its problems and I was being an artist in this house with a child and a husband and it sat on property in Winnipeg and it was an old cottage. In winter the walls froze on the inside and my son had to sleep in the closet until he was about three - I had fixed up the closet so it would work."
Barton-Tait made a scale model of the house - from very small to actual size - out of handmade paper.
"Small scale models can be seen through little peep holes and you can see everything to the cabinets to the loom, to the little chairs and couch," said Barton-Tait. "The main installation is the walls of the house are deconstructed. It's as if though the house is exploding. The third component is video of actions you do when in a house like making sandwiches, folding laundry, cleaning toilets - and it's just the hands doing and the video is projected on to the walls of the house and it just repeats continuously. It's a large exhibit and it's quite a lot of fun."
