Premise

I will build a toy city, then occupy it as my reality.

I enter the space with a box:

In real time, I take blocks out of the box and start to build. A home and then a village, a train and tracks that run into the city, the city itself and the tracks out of the city into the country and, last, a plain simple block, a period. Along the way some bad weather complicates things: water and wind from a little toy fan provide a storm for the train, some show falls on the countryside at the end. This is a precisely choreographed building process, musical and deliberate. It is lit intimately, and performed in close proximity to the audience, so that viewers become focused on/immersed in this little world:

Then the space opens up. Upon the back wall we see this building project begin again, my self-made world now my life-size world. The stop-motion film of the building process behind me will allow me to move "through" the world. I will rest under a tree, travel along with the train, become drenched by the rain and blown over by the wind....

Scale will be important. So will purposeful use or non-use of shadow. I am not sure whether it will be my shadow or my real body that will move in the same scale as the blocks projected behind me. I hope that finding a certain abstraction to my movement performance will allow shape and associations of my movement and the setting to be more dominant than any sort of "acting." I will end the journey lying in my grave, the last little block becoming my headstone.

Blackout.