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Jeff Haase Creates House — with iPhone Photos

October 14, 2014

Jeff Haase Creates House — with iPhone Photos

Jeffrey Haase, associate professor, design, and graduate student Kyle Wallace recreated a round guest house — to scale — from Worthington’s Rush Creek Village in an installation comprised of more than 4,400 iPhone photos.

Haase’s installation is part of the exhibition, “Neighborhood in Harmony with Nature: Rush Creek Village,” open Aug. 21-Oct. 26 at the McConnell Arts Center in Worthington. The one-room guest house is one of 42 Usonian structures in that historic neighborhood based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles.

To create the installation, Haase devised a wire tripod that held the 4S iPhone lens a consistent and proper range from the surfaces so the photos he took printed out on a full, 1:1 scale. Haase photographed every surface of the small, one-room house—from the exterior blocks (and the ivy growing on them) to the ceiling, floor, rugs, pillows, books and chairs inside.

The photos were printed on regular bond paper, and painstakingly adhered, one by one, with wheat paste to a full-scale wooden shell of the house. The house was dismantled and moved to the Worthington gallery in August, where it was reassembled so visitors could walk around and through it. According to one reviewer, "The effect is amazing, like an assembled panoramic, fractured, with a cubist sensibility."

Haase hopes the installation will tour to other galleries.

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